Fortran 90 IEEE Question

[Peter Shenkin]

On Feb 10,  1:58pm, Thomas MacDonald wrote:

> Subject: Re: Fortran 90 IEEE Question
> ....  What I'm trying to find out is what's
> reasonable for:
> 
> 	X = NEAREST(HUGE, +1.0)  ! is this +infinity?
> 	Y = NEAREST(X, +1.0)     ! is this NaN?

Why shouldn't Y also be +infinity (assuming X is +infinity) ?

	-P.


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