On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:35 AM Nick Parlante <n...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > I want to get to a world that is, let's say, "== tolerant" ...
>>
>> Do you use floating point values in your course?
>
>
> You will be relieved to know that  we have great fun showing them how == does 
> not work for floating point numbers. It is super memorable how that all comes 
> unglued.
>

*sigh*

Falsehoods programmers believe about floating point: "Equality is broken".

ChrisA
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