<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-05-09 13:53 GMT-03:00 Martin Peach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chakekatzil@gmail.com" target="_blank">chakekatzil@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></blockquote></span><div>I just tried this in Max6:<br>[pow 2] with a negative input gives a correct positive result.<br></div><div>[pow 0.5] with negative input sets a floatnumberbox to 'nan',</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">yeah, but try it with [pow~] in max, you'll see that it will filter it out and make it output "0", in the same way I was telling you about the other signal objects that can generate inf/nan (I gave the example of atanh~). Currently, it seems only signal bitwise operator objects in max can potentially create inf/nan, and they have a [bitsafe~] object to deal with that (one which we also cloned for cyclone).</span></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>but [print]s the value '-1.#IND00'.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">are you on windows?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> In max, neither of these works in a [sel].</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>yep, so it'd make sense to avoid them </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>