What does it mean by NaN??

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Suizwati
Suizwati on 23 Jul 2013
Hello everyone.. I would to ask a question.. what does it mean by NaN??.. when I execute my programming.. the words "NaN" appear on my screen as a result. sorry for lack of imformation..
tq for your help

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Shashank Prasanna
Shashank Prasanna on 23 Jul 2013
It means not a number, and there could be various reasons you may have got that.
>> 0/0
>> Inf-Inf
etc. The following link has some info on what operations produce NaN
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/nan.html
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Suizwati
Suizwati on 23 Jul 2013
tq so much Shashank
Jan
Jan on 23 Jul 2013
You can find the corresponding documentation by:
docsearch nan
This searches for the term "nan" in the local docs.

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