ALL meanings of nan
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N n - abbreviation Technical meaning of NAN Not-a-Number 3
- noun nan (in Indian cooking) A type of leavened bread, typically of teardrop shape and traditionally cooked in a clay oven. 1
- noun nan a leavened, often tear-shaped flatbread of India, baked in a tandoor. 1
- noun nan grandmother 1
- noun Technical meaning of nan (mathematics) (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero. 1
- countable noun nan Some people refer to their grandmother as their nan. 0
- noun nan a kind of flat leavened bread of India, made with white flour 0