Hello!

I've been programming some miscellaneous code and got stuck in an odd
case. While comparing floats, two obviously identical values return
false in comparison.

I am not sure if this is related to float precision or something
similar. This is the code that I have used:

import std.stdio;

void main(string[] args)
{
        while(foo()) {}
}

bool foo()
{
        static bool ss;
        static int loops;
        static float m = 0f;
        
        if(m != 1.73205f)
        {
                m += 0.00500592f;
                
                if(++loops == 346)
                        ss = true;
        }

        if(ss)
        {
                writefln("Variable: %s", m);
                writefln("Constant: %s", 1.73205f);
                writefln("Equality: %s", m == 1.73205f);
                
                return false;
        }
        
        return true;
}

The output of this program is the following:

Variable: 1.73205
Constant: 1.73205
Equality: false

My question is; how come these values compare unequal?

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