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Comment by purplesyringa

2 months ago

IEEE-754 seems to say that NaN payloads are designed to contain "retrospective diagnostic information inherited from invalid or unavailable data and results". While NaN boxing in particular probably wasn't the intention, untouched payloads in general absolutely were.

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