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Re: IDL 4.0.1, best way to deal with missing/bad data [message #5834 is a reply to message #5783]

Mon, 19 February 1996 00:00

rfinch
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>>>> > "Bill" == William Thompson <thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov> writes:

Bill> rfinch@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Ralph Finch) writes:

Bill> The trouble with using NaN values is that not all computers use
Bill> IEEE floating point notation. Specifically, I'm talking about
Bill> the VAX floating point notation used in VMS, which is still an
Bill> extremely important platform to us. (As far as I'm aware, that
Bill> may be the only exception among modern computers.)

Bill> Perhaps RSI has figured out a way around this difficulty.

What I'd really like is to have a MISS keyword, so you could define
the missing value yourself; MISS=-901.0 in my case. Every
computational and plot routine would understand this keyword.
Computations would ignore those values, plots would skip them.
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		IDL 4.0.1, best way to deal with missing/bad data By: rfinch on Fri, 09 February 1996 00:00
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		Re: IDL 4.0.1, best way to deal with missing/bad data By: rfinch on Mon, 19 February 1996 00:00
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