code not true?

[Grant Edwards]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:27:57 +0100, ng at hardlight.couk.com <ng at hardlight.couk.com> wrote:
>interestingly enough on both Win32 and Linux

>>>> (0.7 * 10) == (0.07 * 100)
>0
>
>>>>  (0.07 * 10) == (0.007 * 100)
>1
>
>>>> (0.07 * 100) == (0.007 * 1000)
>0
>
>>>> (0.07 * 1000.0) == (0.007 * 10000.0)
>1

You've proven once again that testing floating point numbers
for equality is not a particularly useful operation.  ;)

This seems to be something that we were all told as freshmen
but stumble over later anyway.  One wonders if a safe language
intended for use by beginners should even have an equality
operator for floating point objects.

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