Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

I agree with adding '(absolute value)'. I think the following covers the NaN 
behavior. "NaN acts as a positive value that cannot be negated." This should be 
added to both doc and docstring.

I do not think we generally specify the nan behavior for each function, but it 
usually follows general rules. The copysign(x,nan) behavior is not obvious as 
nan, like int 0, does not really have a sign. One might expect 
copysign(-1.0,nan) to be -1.

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