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"Eric Sosman" <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 6/4/2012 5:32 AM, David RF wrote:

>> Is this a good method for test the equality?
>
>     No.

>consider the values 1E-20 and 1E-30: They differ
> by much less than the typical DBL_EPSILON, yet one is ten billion
> times the other.  Do you want to consider a ten billion-fold
> discrepancy "equal?"

I remember having a similar conversation with my bank: I was suggesting that 
a 0.1% interest rate was, to all intents and purposes, a zero interest rate; 
they insisted on still calling it an interest-bearing account.

Of course, from their point of view, it was still returning an infinitely 
higher amount of interest than the zero-rated one, even after tax.

-- 
Bartc 

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Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 02:32 -0700
  Re: Quasi 0 Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-06-04 11:56 +0200
    Re: Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 03:05 -0700
      Re: Quasi 0 James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-04 07:10 -0400
        Re: Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 04:48 -0700
          Re: Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 04:56 -0700
          Re: Quasi 0 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-04 13:05 +0100
            Re: Quasi 0 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-06-04 14:55 -0700
          Re: Quasi 0 James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-04 08:05 -0400
        Re: Quasi 0 nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-06-05 03:54 -0700
          Re: Quasi 0 James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-05 08:07 -0400
          Re: Quasi 0 jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-06-05 13:32 +0000
  Re: Quasi 0 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-04 06:51 -0400
    Re: Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 03:56 -0700
      Re: Quasi 0 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-04 12:08 +0100
        Re: Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 04:14 -0700
      Re: Quasi 0 James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-04 04:25 -0700
    Re: Quasi 0 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-04 12:53 +0100
  Re: Quasi 0 James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-04 07:55 -0400
    Re: Quasi 0 David RF <davranfor@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 04:59 -0700

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