From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T07:24:49+09:00
Subject: Re: when 1.6 != 1.6? -- newbie

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:11:27 +0900, Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
> Either do fixed-point decimals with integers and decimal point
> divisor (100 => 1.00*100; 100 + 20 + 20 + 20 - 160 => 0)
> or pick an error threshold and check that (a - b) < threshold
> (1.0 + 0.2 + 0.2 + 0.2 - 1.6) < 0.01
> => true

Just use BigDecimal.  No need to get tricky.
-- 
Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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