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

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 01:52:02 EDT 2016


On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 11:05:28 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Rustom Mody  wrote:
> > ε is spelt ⎕ct (Comparison Tolerance)
> > And of course == is spelt =
> 
> spelt is spelled spelled. Unless, of course, you mean the wheat variety.

Love it!
Though not everyone agrees (including Australians!)
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5712/spelt-vs-spelled

Anyway... Ive been collecting quines/self-referential statements for classes
on Theory of computation.

Like these from Douglas Hofstadter.
To which I’ll add yours

You cant have “your cake” and spell it “too”

You cant have your use and mention it too

If this sentence were in Chinese it would say something else

.siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI



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