[sci.math.stat] Math/Stdio Library - NaN, Inf

iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) (03/16/91)

One problem that has annoyed me on my  NeXT (BSD 4.3,  Gnu C) for some
time is that there are three floating point numbers that can be output
by printf, but not read by an equivalent scanf: the  68040 definitions
of NaN, +Infinity, and  -Infinity. Are there any  altered  versions of
scanf/sscanf/etc.  that can handle this shortcoming?

Incidentally, where do I get COPS?

/ivo welch