On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 22:40 +0200, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote: > >> One might expect a == (a/b)*b and other common arithmetic formulas to > >> hold for division? > > > Better not if one's using Float or Double. > > I figured someone would say that :) > > What about this one: > round (a/b/c) == round (a/(b*c)) > > Of course this doesn't work on Integers... >
Hmm. C, Java & co.[1] seems to not have this problem. Also having common division operator is well - useful. I don't think it would create much confusion. At least no more than IEEE standard. [1] By co I mean Ruby, Python, Perl and others. There are no so many languages that do recognize the difference.
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