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Subject: Re: A - B
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:40:03 -0600 (MDT)
pcoustillas wrote:
> hi, how could i do A-B when A or B does not exist or is absent... 
> because without a test i recieve "NaN". Thanks.

NaN is the correct answer, if A or B cannot both be converted to numbers.

What do you want that would be different than this? Do you want non-numbers
like empty strings and empty node-sets to be treated as zeroes?

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