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Bug #14014

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NaN.finite?

Added by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) over 6 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
ruby -v:
2.4.2
[ruby-core:83272]

Description

Ruby gives contradictory answers for NaN:

> (0/0.0).finite?
 => false 
> Complex(0/0.0, 0).finite?
 => true 

Note that (0/0.0).infinite? returns nil, so the float answer of false looks even more wrong.

The two solutions I see are either changing Float#finite? to return true for NaN, or to raise in both cases.

I'd lean towards raising in both cases, as NaN can not be said to be finite or infinite

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