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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug?
Message-ID: <9986@alice.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 13:08:26 GMT
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In article <14758@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:

> Specifically, if the C floating point equality operator automatically
> corrected for the fuzz factor, how would you write a C program to
> test the fuzz factor?

Even if the == operator includes a fuzz factor, it's hard to imagine
a sensible implementation in which (a-b)==0 is true unless a and b
are truly identical.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com