On 8 Jul., 15:10, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Interesting. I knew when I posted my above comment that I was ignoring > such situations. I cannot comment on the code itself as I am unaware of > the algorithm, and haven't studied numbers extensively (although I do > find them very interesting). > > So while you've made your point, I believe mine still stands -- > comparing floats using == to absolute numbers is almost always a mistake.
JFTR, it works because a+b == a+b (while I don't think that a+b == b+a holds for all a and b). In general, I totally agree with you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
