Re: Floating-point equality (was Re: How to make a new operator.)

2012-03-25 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 03/25/2012 06:55 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > I don't know if the majority of the perl6-language posters have realized > it yet, but both Perl 6 and the its implementations are quite mature > these days. Mature enough that such proposals should be prototyped as > modules, and thoroughly tested on lo

Re: Floating-point equality (was Re: How to make a new operator.)

2012-03-24 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 03/25/2012 05:59 AM, David Green wrote: > On 2012-March-23, at 12:01 am, Damian Conway wrote: >> [...] we ought to allow for the inevitable loss of significant digits within >> the two preliminary division ops, and therefore compare the results with an >> suitably larger epsilon. >> That wou