Article 4XD1Y [$] Some median Python NaNsense

[$] Some median Python NaNsense

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Anybody who has ever taken a numerical analysis course understands thatfloating-point arithmetic on computers is a messy affair. Even so, it iseasy to underestimate just how messy things can be. This topic came to thefore in an initially unrelated python-ideas mailing-list thread; whatshould the Python statisticsmodule do with floating-point values that are explicitly not numbers?
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