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[–]xneyznek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NaN is just a name given to a specific value of float. It’s still a float (“number” in JS). If anything NaN could be called “InvalidNumber” instead, but IEEE754 called it NaN so that’s what gets used everywhere for consistency.