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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 January 2017) [foldoc]:
Not-a-Number
NaN
(NaN) An IEEE floating point representation
for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a
valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an
infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from
another [what else?].
NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?]
which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It
is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not
convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow
errors to propagate through a calculation.
Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative
overflow and underflow and the positive and negative
infinities resulting from division by zero.
{Bit patterns
(http://psc.edu/general/software/packages/ieee/ieee.html)}.
[ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985].
[Correct?]
(2001-04-01)