I've been participating on email lists and forums for forty-ish years and
this dichotomy has been an ever present cloud hanging over that activity,
sometimes, sadly, to the extent that the list-v-forum debate has swamped
the desired topic of conversation .. I've seen it reach language-war
I've spent a fascinating evening and morning in the arcane depths of
floating point, specifically researching the comparison of two floating
point numbers. I pretty much understand how to do this with a combination
of 'epsilon' and 'ULPs' after reading this
.. agreed but this looks too awful (and is mostly a joke!)
return a >= b.nextDown.nextDown.nextDown.nextDown && a <= b.nextUp.
nextUp.nextUp.nextUp
Thanks, friends, for your insights and info .. Gavin
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