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<cat>Dev.Lua</cat>⤶ The value **nan**, which stands for **Not a Number**, represents the result of an illegal math operation. For example, infinity divided by infinity will produce **nan**. ⤶ ⤶ ⤶ # NaN⤶ ⤶ If `nil` was supposed to be a number, it would be `NaN`. ⤶ This value is generated from henious math operations such as the following:⤶ ⤶ ```lua⤶ local NaN = 0 / 0⤶ ```⤶ ⤶ This is not to be confused with infinity (which for some reason is confused with).⤶ ⤶ ```lua⤶ local Infinity = math.huge or 1 / 0⤶ ```

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