Re: Save produces large files

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, David Bateman wrote:

> Søren Hauberg a écrit :
>
> > a = zeros(3); a(5) = NaN;
> > octave:25> save -float-binary test.data a
> >
> > which gives me the following warning:
> >
> > warning: save: some values too large to save as floats --
> > warning: save: saving as doubles instead
> >
> > Btw. I'm using 2.1.71 on linux
>
> That's pretty stupid behaviour... Perhaps the test for whether data can 
> be saved as float needs to be updated to allow that NaN can be saved as 
> float.....


How is NaN encoded?  The "too large to save as floats" seems to imply that 
NaN is encoded as a large value.  Is that the case?

Mike