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[jira] Closed: (LANG-381) NumberUtils.min(floatArray) returns wrong value if floatArray[0] happens to be Float.NaN

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-381?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Henri Yandell closed LANG-381.
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    Resolution: Fixed

svn ci -m "Applying third patch from LANG-381. Fixes the minimum(float[]) type methods to correctly return NaN when it is in the array, and adds an IEEE754rUtils class that obeys the IEEE 754r update in which NaN in min/max methods should be ignored unless all values are NaN. " src

Adding         src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/math/IEEE754rUtils.java
Sending        src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/math/NumberUtils.java
Adding         src/test/org/apache/commons/lang/math/IEEE754rUtilsTest.java
Sending        src/test/org/apache/commons/lang/math/NumberUtilsTest.java
Transmitting file data ....
Committed revision 609475.

> NumberUtils.min(floatArray) returns wrong value if floatArray[0] happens to be Float.NaN
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-381
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-381
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.3
>            Reporter: Thomas Vandahl
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>         Attachments: LANG-381-both.patch, LANG-381-IEEE-754r.patch, LANG-381-JDK.patch
>
>
> The min() method of NumberUtils returns the wrong result if  the first value of the array happens to be Float.NaN. The following code snippet shows the behaviour:
>         float a[] = new float[] {(float) 1.2, Float.NaN, (float) 3.7, (float) 27.0, (float) 42.0, Float.NaN};
>         float b[] = new float[] {Float.NaN, (float) 1.2, Float.NaN, (float) 3.7, (float) 27.0, (float) 42.0, Float.NaN};
>         
>         float min = NumberUtils.min(a);
>         System.out.println("min(a): " + min); // output: 1.2
>         min = NumberUtils.min(b);
>         System.out.println("min(b): " + min); // output: NaN
> This problem may exist for double-arrays as well. 
> Proposal: Use Float.compare(float, float) or NumberUtils.compare(float, float) to achieve a consistent result.

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