NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

[Walter Bright]

On 8/18/2012 11:21 PM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> Nobody knows how floats work, without being locked in a closet for a at least a
> week and told to change their doubles back into floats and fix their code, since
> thats where 99% of precision problems actually come from.


I was forced to figure out how they work in excruciating detail, as I had to 
write an emulator in case the user didn't have an 8087.

Actually, that knowledge has served me well.