What does it mean by NaN??

Hello everyone.. I would to ask a question.. what does it mean by NaN??.. when I execute my programming.. the words "NaN" appear on my screen as a result. sorry for lack of imformation..

tq for your help

Answer 1

[Shashank Prasanna]

It means not a number, and there could be various reasons you may have got that.

>> 0/0
>> Inf-Inf

etc. The following link has some info on what operations produce NaN

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/nan.html

[Suizwati]

tq so much Shashank

[Jan]

You can find the corresponding documentation by:

docsearch nan

This searches for the term "nan" in the local docs.