Class: MetaNumber

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Instance protocol
  • coercing & converting

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Magnitude
      |
      +--ArithmeticValue
         |
         +--Number
            |
            +--MetaNumber
               |
               +--Infinity
               |
               +--SomeNumber

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Magnitude-Numbers

Version:

rev: 1.1 date: 2003-06-21 10:12:21

user: cg

file: MetaNumber.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

Common behavior for metaNumbers (INF, NaN).

Related information:

    Number
    Infinity
    NotANumber
    Float
    ShortFloat
    Fraction
    FixedPoint
    Integer
    Complex
    FloatArray
    DoubleArray

Instance protocol:

 asFloat

 asFraction

 asInteger

 asLargeFloat

 asLongFloat

 asShortFloat

 coerce: aNumber

 generality

NaN, INF etc. are more general than scalars, but not more general than
vectors (e.g. Points)