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Author gvanrossum
Recipients gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2015-01-13.16:53:20
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Note, the reason I proposed nanj (and infj) is that these are produced by
repr() of complex numbers. Having them in the cmath module provides a place
to document them which will then be searchable.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Guido van Rossum <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Guido van Rossum added the comment:
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> > Note: following the precedent of cmath.e and cmath.pi, cmath.nan and
> cmath.inf should have type *float*.  Let's not get into the business of
> deciding *which* complex infinities and nans to represent.
>
> Agreed.
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