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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients akuchling, docs@python, mark.dickinson, python-dev, r.david.murray, sandro.tosi, terry.reedy, umedoblock
Date 2014-02-16.16:35:31
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> It seems to just copy the sign bit no matter what x and y are.

Yep, that's exactly what happens.  The sign bit from y just gets blindly transferred to x, with no regard to any meaning of x or y.  So it works exactly the same way for zeros, NaNs, infinities, or whatever.
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