Float equality? (was: [BUG] Float NaN's)

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Sep 14 19:49:35 UTC 2004


"Jarvis, Robert P. (Bob) (Contingent)" <bob.jarvis at timken.com> wrote:

> I'm confused, Tim.  As best I can remember, floating point numbers can
> reasonably be compared to one another using inequalities.  My understanding
> is that it's *equality* comparisons that are often misleading and should be
> avoided.
Gagh. You're quite right of course. I was getting caried away due to all
the fatigue toxins in my blood from trying to make sense of FormCanvas
et al. Or maybe the lack of chocolate.



tim
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