Arithmetics

[lilburne]

Evading the question doesn't aid your credibility.

Credibility on USENET doesn't come from answering troll questions.

If someone asked you why:

double step = 1.0/3.0;
for (double e = 0.0; e != 3.0; e += step) {
//do something
}

repeated forever would you tell them it had nothing to do with not using
an epsilon in the comparison?

 

[Pete Becker]

Credibility on USENET doesn't come from answering troll questions.

If someone asked you why:

double step = 1.0/3.0;
for (double e = 0.0; e != 3.0; e += step) {
//do something
}

repeated forever would you tell them it had nothing to do with not using
an epsilon in the comparison?

I wouldn't tell them that using an epsilon solves the problem. It
doesn't.