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mxIsNaN

Purpose

True if value is Not-a-Number

C Syntax

Arguments

The double-precision, floating-point number that you are testing.

Returns

true if value is Not-a-Number; otherwise, returns false.

Description

Call mxIsNaN to determine whether or not value is equal to NaN. NaN is the IEEE arithmetic representation for Not-a-Number. A NaN is obtained as a result of mathematically undefined operations such as

The system understands a family of bit patterns as being equivalent to NaN. In other words, NaN is not a single value, rather it is a family of numbers that MATLAB (and other IEEE-compliant applications) interpret as being equal to Not-a-Number.

See Also

mxIsFinite, mxIsInf



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