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by lutusp 4661 days ago
It's easy enough to create these values and assign them to variable names. Both INF and NAN are available as unique codes defined in IEEE 754:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point

Quote: "The standard defines arithmetic formats: sets of binary and decimal floating-point data, which consist of finite numbers (including signed zeros and subnormal numbers), infinities, and special "not a number" values (NaNs)"