what does NaN mean out of printf?

[Harry Gross]

In article <20283 at adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr at xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>What does NaN mean out of printf?
	   ^^^
Not A Number

>(I assume it's some sorta float point error).

Yup.

>I haven't ever seen it documented anywhere.

I have only seen this in Microsoft C compilers on PC's.  Maybe it is moving :-)

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