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Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 19 February 2013 22:01 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)
<jhildebr@cisco.com> wrote:
> On 2/19/13 2:34 PM, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>
>>re draft-staykov-hu-json-canonical-form:
>>Looks sensible. One gripe:  Why can¹t you sign NaN and INF?  They do in
>>fact  occur in the field, and it¹s not as though a noncanonical
>>representation is possible.
>
> I can figure out how to generate a -INF, but how do I get a -NaN?

In JS?  1/0 -> INF, 0/0 -> NaN.

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