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From: jwb@LINDENTHAL.CAE.RI.CMU.EDU (John Baugh)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Floating point equality
Message-ID: <4970@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 10 May 89 21:32:28 GMT
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In article <3349@bd.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
>Well, I recall one compiler that implemented fuzzy equality... but

Didn't Dijkstra mention his regret in allowing floating point
equality if two numbers differed only in the last bit?  (I don't
remember the language.)

John Baugh
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