• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      I don’t think that’s how most programmers expect it to work at all.

      However most people would also expect 0.1+0.2==0.3 to return true, so what do I know.

      Floating point is something most of us ignore until it bites us in the ass. And then we never trust it again.

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        6 months ago

        I have to admit: If you (semi-)regularly use floating point comparisons in programming, I don’t know why you would ever expect 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 to return true. It’s common practice to check abs(a - b) < tol, where tol is some small number, to the point that common unit-testing libraries have built-in methods like assertEqual(a, b, tol) specifically for checking whether floats are “equal”.