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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug?
Message-ID: <192@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 20:10:22 GMT
References: <19831@mimsy.UUCP> <15852@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <364@capmkt.COM> <1989Sep29.144716.20921@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <3146@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <3146@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>[good discussion of floatingpoint compares with fuzz]

I remember seeing a language several years ago that had *two* equality
operators.  One of them was "equal" and the other "approx. equal".
The fuzz factor was settable under program control.  It was a long
time ago and I don't remember which language it was.  Does anybody
remember any such languages?

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Scott Amspoker
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