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echo: c_plusplus
to: AUKE REITSMA
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1997-11-10 15:17:00
subject: What`s wrong?

 AR> Floating point comparisons are seldom exact. 
Floating point comparisons are *always* exact.  In this case, the comparison 
is quite properly saying that two doubles are different *because they are*.  
See my previous message for the detailed explanation of what is actually 
going on.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
--- FleetStreet 1.19 NR
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