David Fisher wrote:
Ah yes, the difference between being rational and precise :-D
In programming fortran for IBM 370s you couldn't say:
IF ( A.EQ.1.0 )
You had to say something like:
IF ( ABS(A-1.0).LT.EPSILON )
where EPSILON = 0.0001
Yup.
And this is also why in JUnit, assertEquals for floats and doubles has
an error parameter.
Daniel
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