>
> > Well, hashing floating point values rarely will give sensible
> > results. Basically computing "the same" expression second
> > time may give different value.
>
> Wouldn't that happen to equality (=) too?
Yes. Equality in Float has limited use. One possible
use case is to avoid division by zero. If you increase
accuracy for intermediate calculation, then nonzero
divisor may have enough bits to get good final result.
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