Yes, that is one reason why I tend to use BigDecimal instead of float or double. The thing that seems wrong to me is (not (== 1 1.0M)), since these are both exact representations of the value one and the doc for == says that it tests for "equivalent value (type- independent)".
On Apr 11, 10:00 pm, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > IME, it's almost never useful to perform equality tests on floating > point values. Generally you want to know if they're near enough to one > another without necessarily being exactly equal. For that something > like (defn f= [f1 f2 threshold] (< (Math/abs (- f1 f2)) threshold)) is > probably the sort of thing you want. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
