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		astrobe_ on Aug 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Return True to Win Does that spec forces you to implement equality test between floating point numbers?

Zarel on Aug 12, 2016 [–]

...yes? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here, though.

astrobe_ on Aug 12, 2016 | [–]

I'm asking if it is really a good idea for a language to provide equality/inequality for floating point numbers when it's often mistake to do that.

Myrmornis on Aug 13, 2016 | | [–]

So disallow the direct operator but allow equality to be deduced indirectly by usage of > < >= <= ?

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