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Somewhat annoyingly the ascribe standard only specifies that various math functions return an approximation but does not set any bounds on that approximation. So for many functions you could just return NaN and still be compliant.


Isn’t NaN the one value that can’t possibly count as an approximation, because it’s not a number and unordered? ;)


You might think so, but if it’s not specified in the standard…


It is the worst possible approximation though.


I was submitting an interpretation of the standard.




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