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Subject: Re: Floating-Point Numbers and Internal Representation
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As a complement to other answers about comparing floating
point numbers, here is a page explaining the use of appropriate
epsilons in Ada according to the circumstances:

http://www.adaic.com/docs/95style/html/sec_7/7-2-7.html

HTH
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