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by worik 1895 days ago
No it does not, no it is not possible to use equality comparisons usefully in FP arithmetic
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If that were true, they wouldn't have defined the equality operators for floating point types. Some numbers are exactly representable and some numbers are not [1]. It's difficult, but you can in fact reason about the exact results of floating point calculations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847462