• CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Theres plenty of cases where I would like to do some large calculation that can potentially give a NaN at many intermediate steps. I prefer to check for the NaN at the end of the calculation, rather than have a bunch of checks in every intermediate step.

    How I handle the failed calculation is rarely dependent on which intermediate step gave a NaN.

    This feels like people want to take away a tool that makes development in the engineering world a whole lot easier because “null bad”, or because they can’t see the use of multiplying 1e27 with 1e-30.