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From: Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: higher precision doubles
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markspace schrieb:
>
> "x == 0" is kind of a known rube-ism.

Then take x==0.0 . That is what I want to
know, and not |x|<eps (this is not
the issue of this post).

Actually I trust the runtime to make an
exact widening of 0 to 0.0. Or when the
compiler already does it for me, I also
trust them.

Bye