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Wrong NaN comparison — CodeQL query help documentation

ID: java/comparison-with-nan
Kind: problem
Security severity: 
Severity: error
Precision: very-high
Tags:
   - quality
   - reliability
   - correctness
Query suites:
   - java-code-quality.qls
   - java-security-and-quality.qls

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The special floating-point number NaN is defined to be different from all other floating-point numbers, including itself, when compared using the equality operators, == and !=.

Recommendation

To check whether a variable x is NaN use the method isNaN that is defined on both java.lang.Float and java.lang.Double.

Example

The expression x == Double.NaN is always false. This expression should be replaced by Double.isNaN(x), which accurately identifies whether x is equal to Double.NaN.

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