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Please assign to Tianxing Ma (https://redmine.named-data.net/users/796)

What do we do with NaN and infinite values?

Also, why are the new helpers named readFloat/makeFloatBlock/etc..? They deal with doubles so using "Double" in the name instead of "Float" sounds more intuitive to me.

They deal with doubles so using "Double" in the name instead of "Float" sounds more intuitive to me.

"Float" is not wrong. double is one of the C types for floating point numbers.

You're missing my point. I didn't say it's wrong, I said it's not intuitive because "float" is also a floating-point type in C/C++, and the fact that e.g. readFloat returns a double instead of a float is probably surprising/confusing to most readers.

Davide Pesavento wrote:

You're missing my point. I didn't say it's wrong, I said it's not intuitive because "float" is also a floating-point type in C/C++, and the fact that e.g. readFloat returns a double instead of a float is probably surprising/confusing to most readers.

Yes, I think readDouble is more accurate here.

@Tianxing, could you please check whether we need representation of zero, NAN, infinite in NLSR hyperbolic coordinates encoding/decoding?