Re: table sort: IEEE floating-point number NaN?

sur-behoffski <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:21:21 +0930
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
(Interesting discussion elided for briefness.)

Does the floating-point number NaN (assume IEEE754 etc.) always
compare as false to any other value, even another NaN?

If so, this could confuse some partitioning algorithms.

b

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