On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 17:51:27 +0200, Michael Marte wrote:
> When adding the three double numbers
> 0.7, 0.2, and 0.1, a ghc 4.07-compiled program (compilation flag -O)
> yields 0.9999999999999999. Whatever this string stands for, the number is
> considered to be < 1.0, which breaks my program. What to do?
It's always been a problem to compare Floats. You can try
a) using Rationals (IIRC)
b) abs (x - 1.0) < threshold
Cheers,
Michael
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