template bug?

[Bill Baxter]

Marius Muja wrote:
> Because of the nature of floating point numbers, you shouldn't use 
> equality(==) to compare floating point numbers.
> 
> Instead of n==1 you should write something like abs(n-1)<eps (where eps 
> is a small number)

It's true generally, but integers (up to a point) have an exact 
representation in floating point.  Multiplying exact real integers by 
exact real integers will yield exact real integers as long as you don't 
overlflow the mantissa.

-bb