[Python-ideas] Way to check for floating point "closeness"?

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Tue Jan 13 02:22:09 CET 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> But I think the unavoidable ambiguity of cmath.inf argues against having
> cmath.nan.
>

agreed.

we already need to spell -inf:  -math.inf, so the four possible complex
infs can be built up similarly.

-Chris



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