1 > 0 == True -> False

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Thu Jan 30 17:09:31 EST 2014


On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:09:03 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> `(x+1 > 0) and (y >= 5)`

Me:
> this is even simpler:
> (x > -1) and (y >= 5)

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:03:42 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Be careful; that's not the same thing.

In what way?  I'm assuming x is some numeric type.  And further assuming it's not some humungous floating point value, so we run into precision issues.



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