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- Subject: Re: Float numbers equality.
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:08:52 -0700
Given that this subject comes up every couple of months, and that there are some subtleties to it, that this warrants a new function in the math library to do it the right way?
On Aug 10, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
>> On 10/08/2013 0.47, Coda Highland wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, whoops, yeah, you're right, I got sloppy there. Really that ought
>>> to be epsilon*math.max(lhs,rhs) even.
>>
>>
>> Do you mean epsilon*math.max(math.abs(lhs),math.abs(rhs)) ?
>>
>> --
>> Enrico
>>
>
> No, but you have a good point that it should be math.abs(epsilon*rhs).
>
> /s/ Adam
>
