{"id":4564,"date":"2021-05-27T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:34:11","slug":"nan-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2021\/05\/27\/nan-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"NaN Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us at MathWorks like to share our \"NaN sightings.\" Here is an example to show what I mean. This is a screenshot of the tuner\/metronome app that I use when practicing music. One day, I was a bit startled when the app suddenly decided that my metronome tempo was -NaN. (Am I playing too fast? No. Am I playing too slow? No. Am I playing at just the right speed? Also no.)\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/nan-metronome.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/nan-metronome-139x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4566\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nHere's another example spotted by a fellow MathWorker. In a town near my home, you can apparently buy a lawn tractor that has been driven NaN miles.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/NaNMiles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/NaNMiles-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4570\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nAnd a third MathWorker was helping a family member file their taxes and received this surprising summary of the results.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/nan-refund.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1606\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/nan-refund.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4568\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nIf you spot some amusing NaNs in the wild, let us know by posting a comment below. Include a picture if you like. (You might want to black out any personally identifying information before uploading a picture.)\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/nan-metronome.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><p>Some of us at MathWorks like to share our \"NaN sightings.\" Here is an example to show what I mean. This is a screenshot of the tuner\/metronome app that I use when practicing music. One day, I was a... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2021\/05\/27\/nan-sightings\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}