Floating point equality [was Re: What exactly is "exact" (was Clean Singleton Docstrings)]

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Wed Jul 20 03:25:01 EDT 2016


Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be>:
> But why perforem integer arithmetics in floats,

Conceptual and practical simplificity.

> isn't that a waste of time too?

Probably not, especially compared with the overhead of boxing.


Marko



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