semantics for those distinct NaN values).

For example, an IEEE 754 single precision (32-bit) NaN would be encoded aswhere s is the sign (most often ignored in applications) and the x sequence represents a non-zero number (the value zero encodes infinities). In practice, the most significant bit from x is used to determine the type of NaN: "quiet NaN" or "signaling NaN" (see details in Encoding). The remaining bits encode a payload (most often ignored in applications).

Floating-point operations other than ordered comparisons normally

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