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

[Ben Bacarisse]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:
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> Or you might be using a language like Javascript, which intentionally has
> only floats for numbers. That's okay, you can still perform exact integer
> arithmetic, so long as you stay within the bounds of ±2**16.

Small point: it's 2**52.

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-- 
Ben.