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[jira] Commented: (HARMONY-22) Double NaN should compare greater than positive infinity

    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-22?page=comments#action_12361423 ] 

Tim Ellison commented on HARMONY-22:
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The rules for (object) Double/Float comparison differ from those for (JLS floating-point) double/float types.
This provides for the natural ordering of the object types (c.f. their implementation of equals(Object) that also differs from JLS types).

ref: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#compareTo(java.lang.Double)

> Double NaN should compare greater than positive infinity
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HARMONY-22
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-22
>      Project: Harmony
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Classlib
>     Reporter: Tim Ellison
>     Assignee: Tim Ellison

>
> java.lang.Double.compareTo(java.lang.Double) should answer that  Double.NaN is greater than Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY.
> Here's a test case that demonstrates the problem:
> 	public void testDoubleCompare() {
> 		Double nonNumber = new Double(Double.NaN);
> 		Double infinity = new Double(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY);
> 		int indicator = nonNumber.compareTo(infinity);
> 		assertEquals("Incorrect comparison result", 1, indicator);
> 	}

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