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Fix innacuracy about NaN values. (#258)

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* Fix innacuracy about NaN values.

There was an error in the description of cases that yield NaN values. The erroneous data was scrapped.

* fixed minor error
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@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ On any digital system, all numbers are represented in a binary base in order to
Naturally, there is a limit to the amount of numbers and the precision with which they can be represented, not to mention that a number can be expressed in many ways by just declaring it as a different type (e.g. integer, [floating-point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic) number, etc.).
Likewise, there are also many mathematical elements that aren't numbers per se, but special cases that result from mathematical operations.
Think, for example, about the square root of a negative number: although the result of this operation is a valid [complex number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number), it's not a defined type (i.e. a number that the computer understands), therefore, it becomes *something else*.
There are many other operations which yield similar results: division by zero, multiplying by infinity, or even more exotic things like dividing zero by zero, zero by infinity, or multiplying zero by infinity.
Or think about dividing any number by zero: this mathematical operation is undefined, and thus it yields a similar result.
These types of indeterminations are defined as a special floating-point value called [`NaN`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN) - which stands for "Not a Number".
The architecture of the CPU of the Nintendo Switch (`ARM`) handles these NaN values differently from the architecture used by any computer CPU (`AMD64`).