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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:01:31 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

> ALGOL60 was the language where a test of equality between two floating
> point numbers was actually a test of "close enough for ALGOL".  If I
> want to test for "approximately equal" then I want a different operator.

Agreed, but that would be a handy operator. I do some GIS programming 
where equality close enough for horseshoes or hand grenades is what you 
really want so you wind up testing with some arbitrary epsilon value.