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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Floating-Point Numbers and Internal Representation
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:11:49 +0000 (UTC)
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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