Always false float comparisons

Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun May 15 13:48:22 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 18:30:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> If you wrote it "to not break if the floating-point precision 
> is enhanced, and to allow greater precision to be used when the 
> hardware supports it" then what's the problem?
>
> Can you provide an example of a legitimate algorithm that 
> produces degraded results if the precision is increased?

No, but I think that's not really relevant to the point I was 
making.  Results don't have to be degraded to be inconsistent.


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