Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!gatech!unmvax!bbx!bbxsda!scott 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> Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Organization: Basis International, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 13 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? -- Scott Amspoker Basis International, Albuquerque, NM (505) 345-5232