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		bananzamba 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's OK to compare floating-points for equality If you need equality, just use fixed point

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Panzerschrek 8 days ago [–]

I agree that using fixed point in many cases is a better option. But floating point is assumed to be the default choice for computations with non-integer numbers, because almost all popular programming languages have only floating-point built-in types, but not fixed point types.

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