Point noted, it doesn't seem to be the case for the original question, as he is doing some square roots.


On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:00, <ajb@spamcop.net> wrote:
G'day all.


Quoting Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto <RafaelGCPP.Linux@gmail.com>:

I am reading this and still don't understand what is the question. You
should never operate two floating point numbers expecting to result zero.
Period.

WARNING: Advanced material follows.

A 32-bit integer fits losslessly in the mantissa of a Double.  Any of
the basic integer operations which work correctly on 32-bit integers
must also work correctly when that integer is stored in a Double.  You
are allowed to assume this.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage

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