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"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
news:dmutf4$gpt$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Independent of CPU/Language used I would allways suggest to use
>>
>> abs (X - Y) < epsilon
>>
>> with a sufficient but not to small epsilon instead.
>
> Suggested reading:
>
> http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm
>
> There is more than one answer to this problem...
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Martin

Interestingly enough I ran across this site a couple of months ago, and am 
using the AlmostEquals function in some C++ code.

For Ada, I would think you could make use of the 'Adjacent attribute to 
achieve a similar result, but would be independent of the floating point 
representation.

Steve
(The Duck)