On 12 January 2011 15:31, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why aren't the comparison methods in java (since 1.4) good enough?
1) LANG 2.x targets 1.3 2) compare does not take into account that floats/doubles are inexact, so some tolerance is needed. See http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm for useful explanation. Furthermore, both compare() and equals() treat +0 and -0 as being unequal. > http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#compare(double, > double) > > http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Float.html#compare(float, > float) > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:15 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Would it be useful to add an equals method for float/double? >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
