[Info-vax] Floating Point (was Re: DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI))

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-31 15:49:01 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> 
> If I had my way, all languages would either outright ban equality testing
> of two floating point numbers or would require the programmer to state at
> some point within the source code what the acceptable delta is between two
> floating point numbers before they are no longer considered to be equal.

For those that have not seen and have not bookmarked it already,
Goldberg's What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About 
Floating-Point Arithmetic
<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html>


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