Floating point non-exactness
Gary Duzan
gdtltr at freezer.it.udel.edu
Mon Aug 6 16:36:46 AEST 1990
All practical applications aside, isn't it philosophically unnatural to
apply an eqivalence comparison to two floating point (presumably real)
numbers? I know there are finite representations in the machine, etc., but
what mathematics I have had would make me think twice about this anyway.
Gary Duzan
Time Lord
Third Regeneration
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