Floating point default values.

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On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 07:30:44 UTC, Charis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry if this is a silly question, or if it's answered 
> anywhere (it's really hard googling anything about "d"), but I 
> was wondering what's the reasoning behind NaN being the default 
> value for float/double/real.
>
> It only seems to be making things more complicated for no 
> reason. Or is there a purpose to it?
>
> Thank you

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