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No it does not, no it is not possible to use equality comparisons usefully in FP arithmetic
by worik 6y ago
No it does not, no it is not possible to use equality comparisons usefully in FP arithmetic
- slavik81 6y agoIf that were true, they wouldn't have defined the equality operators for floating point types. Some numbers are exactly representable and some numbers are not [1]. It's difficult, but you can in fact reason about the exact results of floating point calculations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847462