# Showing a BitVector in NamedTuple

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/showing-a-bitvector-in-namedtuple/131048>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** namedtuple\
**Created:** [July 25, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/showing-a-bitvector-in-namedtuple/131048 "2025-07-25T08:35:24Z")\
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Related thread:

- [Does anybody anywhere care about NaN payloads?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-anybody-anywhere-care-about-nan-payloads/94152)

> [@Sukera](#):
>
> As far as I know, there is no other “blessed” way (apart from `Core.bitcast`) to create these non-standard `NaN` value

Counterexample:

```julia-repl
julia> NaN === -NaN
false

julia> bitstring(NaN)
"0111111111111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

julia> bitstring(-NaN)
"1111111111111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

```

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