From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: Comparing Floating Point Values
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:02:36 GMT
Date: 2006-12-13T20:02:36+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v%Yfh.314157$1i1.102686@attbi_s72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1166026474.277616.267400@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
markp wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a convention for comparing 2 floats
> dealing with significant digits. For example, if I had 2 variables (x
> and y) and wanted to see if they were equal in an if statement, is
> there a standard way to do a compare based on "x" significant digits?
You might want to consider the attribute 'Model_Epsilon.
--
Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2006-12-13 16:14 Comparing Floating Point Values markp
2006-12-13 16:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2006-12-13 16:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-12-13 20:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-12-13 20:13 ` Gautier
2006-12-14 2:21 ` Steve
2006-12-14 22:22 ` Martin
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