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39 .Nd test for not-a-number
45 .Fn isnan "real-floating x"
49 macro determines whether its argument
53 An argument represented in a format wider than its semantic type is
54 converted to its semantic type first.
55 The determination is then based on the type of the argument.
59 macro returns a non-zero value if the value of
62 Otherwise 0 is returned.
71 .%T "IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic"