Always false float comparisons

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 13 14:35:23 PDT 2016


On 5/13/2016 12:48 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> IMO the compiler should never be allowed to use a precision different from the
> one specified.

I take it you've never been bitten by accumulated errors :-)

Reduced precision is only useful for storage formats and increasing speed. If a 
less accurate result is desired, your algorithm is wrong.


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