There a NaN Seats Available

[Ron McLeod]

I was hoping to book some rail travel from Vancouver to Seattle, but sadly there were NaN reserveable coach seats available ...

[Bear Bibeault]

Must be from Maine. "We don' put up with NaN of that nonsense up heeyar."

[Campbell Ritchie]

I think it is worse than that; NaN people have already reserved seats.

[Liutauras Vilda]

I thought they introduced bug in calculations, hence got - "Not a Number".

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Liutauras Vilda wrote:I thought they introduced bug in calculations, hence got - "Not a Number".

But it is funnier to make jokes

[Ron McLeod]

Liutauras Vilda wrote:I thought they introduced bug in calculations, hence got - "Not a Number".

Assuming that they are not selling tickets for for less an a whole seat, should the result of any calculation ever be a floating point value?

[Campbell Ritchie]

It't the number of people that is a floating‑point number, some of them not being all there.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ron McLeod wrote:

Liutauras Vilda wrote:I thought they introduced bug in calculations, hence got - "Not a Number".

Assuming that they are not selling tickets for for less an a whole seat, should the result of any calculation ever be a floating point value?

You can still try to divide an int by zero though. Doesn't that still give NaN?  

[Liutauras Vilda]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:You can still try to divide an int by zero though. Doesn't that still give NaN?

Nope, only floats. And in particular 0 / 0.0; changing first operand to positive > 0 gives infinity, to negative minus infinity. Maybe there are more cases for NaN though, don't know.

Ron McLeod wrote:Assuming that they are not selling tickets for for less an a whole seat, should the result of any calculation ever be a floating point value?

Since it is MD fora here, I'm free to assume what I want You might cannot buy half of a seat, but you can calculate how much it costs

[Campbell Ritchie]

NaN is defined as 0.0 ÷ 0.0. You can get NaN from various functions e.g. Math.sqrt(−1).

[Bear Bibeault]

Every time I see this topic, it makes me hungry.

[Campbell Ritchie]

I know weak puns are allowed on Fridays.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Bear: What is that? It doesn't look like pie?

[Bear Bibeault]

Naan, a flatbread that I usually associate with Indian food. And completely delicious!

[Campbell Ritchie]

Unless you got for something like a Peshwari naan, you are better off with chapattis.