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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/21
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Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <570j6p$nlq$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
Francois Labreque  <flabreq@ibm.net> wrote:

>Anyway, I agree with you that unless you deal with the infinitely small 
>or infinitely large, gone are the days where you had to substract two 
>floats and see if the difference was less than some predefined "tiny" 
>value rather than testing them for equality.

That is nonsense.