float equality

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Feb 19 23:18:06 PST 2011


On Saturday 19 February 2011 23:09:51 Walter Bright wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> > Bottom line is, if you work with numbers, you've got to pay attention to
> > roundoff error and other mechanical issues in deriving answers, whether
> > you're using a calculator, a computer, a slide rule, by hand, whatever.
> > If you don't, you are incompetent.
> 
> I mean "you" generically, not anyone in particular. Sorry 'bout that.

I figured as much.

Regardless, I'm glad that I don't generally have to do much in the way of math-
centric programming.

- Jonathan M Davis


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