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by foxhill 2916 days ago
basically every language with IEEE-754[1] compliance..!

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

2 comments

I'd think that in all those languages, -0 == +0 tests true, though. In JavaScript even -0 === +0 tests true.

The only way to tell them apart in general is to divide by them. In some languages you might be able to type-pun and examine the bit pattern, or do things like Object.is() or whatnot.

But only when imposing a total ordering.
that’s not the case, in IEE754 floating point, zero is signed - i.e negative and positive zero are distinct values
But the standard comparison operators don’t distinguish them.