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Why are floating point values default initialized to NaN rather than 0?

April 26, 2017Default floating initialized NaN point values

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Why are floating point values default initialized to NaN rather than 0?

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A floating point value, if no explicit initializer is given, is initialized to NaN (Not A Number):