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gugagore on Aug 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: IEEE 754 round-off errors

I see this advice often and I find that it misses the point. The problem isn't the equality check, the problem is finite precision.

There are situations that call for exact equality checking in floating point.

cratermoon on Aug 27, 2021 [–]

In which case, you don't use IEEE 754 floating point for math, you use some kind of numerics type or library that correctly models the domain.

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