Always false float comparisons

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/15/2016 11:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Walter, you keep saying degraded results.
>
> The scientific folks keep saying *consistent* results.

Programs will not produce inconsistent results. You run the same program, you 
get the same results.

Scientists know that all measurements contain error. The idea is to identify 
what the maximum error is. I've never heard of a scientific experiment that 
required a minimum error.


> You might argue they should add "same hardware" to that list, but apparently it
> isn't that easy, or I doubt people would be talking about this.

You're arguing for floating point portability, which is something else again. 
Java tried that (discussed earlier) and it was a near complete failure.