Re: Why do these values not match?
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:45:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why do these values not match? | ||
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:14:13 -0700
<szii@sziisoft.com> wrote:
> IEEE standard is precision to 6 decimal places.
> Having an epsilon of < 2 is ridiculously small, and
> well under the IEEE / ANSI standard. While floats
> should never be directly compared as a matter of
> course, in this instance it's a bit silly.
Never test equality with two floats,this is a rule in ANSI C too, not directly the standard, but a
well known fact. And this fact is one in many langages. Try a test with mysql :).
I will not continue discussions about bugs or not, that has been already discussed many times :)
check the archives.
hth
hth
pa