Determines if the given floating-point numberarg is a not-a-number (NaN) value. The macro returns an integral value.

FLT_EVAL_METHOD is ignored: even if the argument is evaluated with more range and precision than its type, it is first converted to its semantic type, and the classification is based on that (this matters if the evaluation type supports NaNs, while the semantic type does not).

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Nonzero integral value ifarg is a NaN,​0​ otherwise.

[edit]Notes

There are many different NaN values with different sign bits and payloads, seenan.

NaN values never compare equal to themselves or to other NaN values. Copying a NaN may change its bit pattern.

Another way to test if a floating-point value is NaN is to compare it with itself:bool is_nan(double x){return x!= x;}

[edit]Example

#include <float.h>#include <math.h>#include <stdio.h> int main(void){printf("isnan(NAN)         = %d\n", isnan(NAN));printf("isnan(INFINITY)    = %d\n", isnan(INFINITY));printf("isnan(0.0)         = %d\n", isnan(0.0));printf("isnan(DBL_MIN/2.0) = %d\n", isnan(DBL_MIN/2.0));printf("isnan(0.0 / 0.0)   = %d\n", isnan(0.0/0.0));printf("isnan(Inf - Inf)   = %d\n", isnan(INFINITY- INFINITY));}

isnan(NAN)         = 1isnan(INFINITY)    = 0isnan(0.0)         = 0isnan(DBL_MIN/2.0) = 0isnan(0.0 / 0.0)   = 1isnan(Inf - Inf)   = 1

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