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Topic: -1.#IND00 in matlab
Replies: 13   Last Post: Jan 3, 2013 8:17 AM

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Re: -1.#IND00 in matlab
Posted: Jan 2, 2013 12:37 PM
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On 1/2/2013 10:12 AM, majeti dinesh wrote:
> How to avoid obtaining it?

Don't divide zero by zero or inf-inf or somesuch. Definitions of what
operations produce NaN are in the IEEE 754 floating point Standard.

Google for it and also for "What every computer scientist should
know..." by Goldberg for details

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