From Java Language Specification:
Floating-point equality testing is performed in accordance with the rules of the IEEE 754 standard:
If either operand is NaN, then the result of == is false but the result of != is true. Indeed, the test x!=x is true if and only if the value of x is NaN. (The methods Float.isNaN and Double.isNaN may also be used to test whether a value is NaN.)
Positive zero and negative zero are considered equal. Therefore, -0.0==0.0 is true, for example.
Otherwise, two distinct floating-point values are considered unequal by the equality operators. In particular, there is one value representing positive infinity and one value representing negative infinity; each compares equal only to itself, and each compares unequal to all other values.
Floating-point equality testing is performed in accordance with the rules of the IEEE 754 standard:
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If either operand is NaN, then the result of == is false but the result of != is true. Indeed, the test x!=x is true if and only if the value of x is NaN. (The methods Float.isNaN and Double.isNaN may also be used to test whether a value is NaN.)
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Positive zero and negative zero are considered equal. Therefore, -0.0==0.0 is true, for example.
-
Otherwise, two distinct floating-point values are considered unequal by the equality operators. In particular, there is one value representing positive infinity and one value representing negative infinity; each compares equal only to itself, and each compares unequal to all other values.
That method can return true for certain operations, for example:
System.out.println(Float.isNaN(0.0f / 0.0f));
System.out.println(Double.isNaN(Math.sqrt(-1)));
Basically, NaN
represents an undefined value. The value of 0.0 / 0.0
is NaN
, and Nan != NaN
. It may seem logical because Math.sqrt(-1)
also gives you NaN
.
See the javadoc of Double.NaN
:
It is equivalent to the value returned by
Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7ff8000000000000L)
And then Double.longBitsToDouble()
:
If the argument is any value in the range
0x7ff0000000000001L
through0x7fffffffffffffffL
or in the range0xfff0000000000001L
through0xffffffffffffffffL
, the result is aNaN
. No IEEE 754 floating-point operation provided by Java can distinguish between two NaN values of the same type with different bit patterns.
Floating-point equality testing is performed in accordance with the rules of the IEEE 754 standard:
If either operand is NaN, then the result of == is false but the result of != is true. Indeed, the test x!=x is true if and only if the value of x is NaN. (The methods Float.isNaN and Double.isNaN may also be used to test whether a value is NaN.)
Positive zero and negative zero are considered equal. Therefore, -0.0==0.0 is true, for example.
Otherwise, two distinct floating-point values are considered unequal by the equality operators. In particular, there is one value representing positive infinity and one value representing negative infinity; each compares equal only to itself, and each compares unequal to all other values.