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NAN:An acronym for “not a number.” The math processors generate NANs when the result of an operation cannot be represented in IEEE format.

near address:A memory location specified by only the offset from the start of the segment. A near address requires only two bytes. See also “address” and “far address.”

newline character:The character used to mark the end of a line in a text file, or the escape sequence (\n in C language) used to represent this character.

null character:The ASCII character whose value is 0, or the escape sequence (\0 in C language) used to represent this character.

null pointer:A pointer to nothing, expressed as the integer value 0.