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From: gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan)
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Subject: Re: Floating point non-exactness
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Date: 6 Aug 90 06:36:46 GMT
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   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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