Re: [sage-support] Dealing with 'NaN' values

2012-07-31 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:16:31 +0200 Zimmermann Paul wrote: >Hi Vladimir, > > 'NaN' means "Not a Number". It might produced by some uninitialized > value, or the arithmetic of some invalid arithmetic operation, like > sqrt(-1.0), 0/0, Inf - Inf, ... > > You should first investig

[sage-support] Dealing with 'NaN' values

2012-07-31 Thread Zimmermann Paul
Hi Vladimir, 'NaN' means "Not a Number". It might produced by some uninitialized value, or the arithmetic of some invalid arithmetic operation, like sqrt(-1.0), 0/0, Inf - Inf, ... You should first investigate why you get such values in your array, since simply ignoring them might be wrong

[sage-support] Dealing with 'NaN' values

2012-07-30 Thread v_2e
Hello! I'm working with some data arrays which have 'NaN's somewhere inside them. So I have a couple of questions on how to deal with such arrays. First, how does the 'mean()' function treats the 'NaN' values in the lists passed to it? Should it just ignore them and calculate the average valu