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- Subject: Re: Floating point inaccuracies
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:18:49 +0200
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com> wrote:
> Even more likely to trap the unwary, I'd have thought.
Yes, such weird implementation details will only postpone the point
when someone _really_ needs to understand floating-point! The earlier
the better; when they taught us FORTRAN IV they hammered the
do-not-expect-floats-to-be-equal point home.
steve d.
