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quiet NaN

The ordinary kind of NaN, which flows through arithmetic without stopping the program.

A quiet NaN has the most significant fraction bit set; operations on it return a quiet NaN without raising the invalid-operation exception.

Examples

  • 0x7FC00000 is the usual binary32 quiet NaN.

See also

NaN signaling NaN
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