Support for data containing NaN values

[Mark Taylor]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Randy Thompson wrote:

> As a general question, does data containing NaN values
> violate any VO standards or protocols,and if not, should VO
> applications be expected to accept them as input?

the question is rather broad ("data" can take many forms), but on
the whole the answer is that most standards and software in the VO
should and do behave sensibly in the presence of NaN-valued floating
point values.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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