approxEqual() has fooled me for a long time...
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Oct 20 11:54:48 PDT 2010
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Any ideas? The feqrel and approxEqual story does seem to suggest that
> names (and by extension syntax) are important.
When doing real engineering calculations, we think in terms of "significant
digits" of accuracy, not accurate to .001. The within(1e-5) is seductively wrong.
Something like matchBits(a,b,nbits) and matchDigits(a,b,ndigits) would be better.
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