> I’ve written in great detail about how to compare floating-point values using an epsilon, but there are times when it is just not appropriate. Sometimes there

> I’ve written in great detail about how to compare floating-point values using an epsilon, but there are times when it is just not appropriate. Sometimes there really is an answer that is correct, and in those cases anything less than perfection is just sloppy. Certain applications will choose fixed point to avoid what appears to be the imprecisions of floating point.