[Numpy-discussion] [Feature Suggestion]More comparison functions for floating point numbers

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:51 PM, cy18 <thecy18 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It would be useful when we need to subtracting a bit before comparing by
greater or less. By subtracting a bit, we only have an absolute error
tolerance and with the new functions, we can have both absolute and
relative error tolerance. This is how isclose(a, b) better than
abs(a-b)<=atol.

You just adjust the value by whichever tolerance is greatest in magnitude.

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Robert Kern
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