A new AC fare?
Hey, hey, goodbye.
Mar 22, 2018, 5:45 pm
#5
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Mar 22, 2018, 6:12 pm
#6
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Bust ask siri about the l'Hospital rule.
Mar 22, 2018, 6:24 pm
#7
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Mar 22, 2018, 6:31 pm
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Not really. Computers will yield a NaN if they strictly face 0/0, or if the answer falls outside the range of their floating point format. As to an answer being indeterminate that never makes sense physically, except if the question made no sense in the first place. Otherwise a sensible limit should exist.
None of which explaining why AC's computers yield a NaN when adding 0+0. Which in any decent family and for any reasonable computer is always 0.
None of which explaining why AC's computers yield a NaN when adding 0+0. Which in any decent family and for any reasonable computer is always 0.
Mar 22, 2018, 6:34 pm
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Not really. Computers will yield a NaN if they strictly face 0/0, or if the answer falls outside the range of their floating point format. As to an answer being indeterminate that never makes sense physically, except if the question made no sense in the first place. Otherwise a sensible limit should exist.
None of which explaining why AC's computers yield a NaN when adding 0+0. Which in any decent family and for any reasonable computer is always 0.
None of which explaining why AC's computers yield a NaN when adding 0+0. Which in any decent family and for any reasonable computer is always 0.
And by happen I mean make it into production. This should be caught on dev or Test. I’m assuming AC have at least one non live environment.
Mar 22, 2018, 6:40 pm
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Mar 22, 2018, 7:44 pm
#14
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Had a similar issue at work a few weeks ago - basically our app was formatting a price but the API returned "Price not available" so yeah .... we were showing $undefined.NaN or something ridiculous like that
If you look at the screenshot, you'll see the fare and taxes are listed as "0.0" which is a bit unusual and might help explain what's going on
Also, as a proof of concept, you can do this in your browser's javascript console
> "0.0" + "0.0"
< "0.00.0"
> Number("0.0" + "0.0")
< NaN
....
And guess what I just saw in my console
If you look at the screenshot, you'll see the fare and taxes are listed as "0.0" which is a bit unusual and might help explain what's going on
Also, as a proof of concept, you can do this in your browser's javascript console
> "0.0" + "0.0"
< "0.00.0"
> Number("0.0" + "0.0")
< NaN
....
And guess what I just saw in my console
Mar 22, 2018, 8:55 pm
#15
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Had a similar issue at work a few weeks ago - basically our app was formatting a price but the API returned "Price not available" so yeah .... we were showing $undefined.NaN or something ridiculous like that
If you look at the screenshot, you'll see the fare and taxes are listed as "0.0" which is a bit unusual and might help explain what's going on
Also, as a proof of concept, you can do this in your browser's javascript console
> "0.0" + "0.0"
< "0.00.0"
> Number("0.0" + "0.0")
< NaN
....
And guess what I just saw in my console
If you look at the screenshot, you'll see the fare and taxes are listed as "0.0" which is a bit unusual and might help explain what's going on
Also, as a proof of concept, you can do this in your browser's javascript console
> "0.0" + "0.0"
< "0.00.0"
> Number("0.0" + "0.0")
< NaN
....
And guess what I just saw in my console
