In Java, what does NaN mean?

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“NaN” stands for “not a number”. “Nan”
is produced if a floating point
operation has some input parameters
that cause the operation to produce
some undefined result. For example,
0.0 divided by 0.0 is arithmetically undefined. Taking the square root of a
negative number is also undefined.

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