Tom Anderson wrote: > This is taken from the AIEEEEEEEE 754 standard, i take it? :) > > Seriously, that's horrible. Fredrik, you are a bad man, and run a bad > railway. > > However, looking at the page the OP cites, the only mention of that > operator i can find is in Dylan, and in Dylan, it's nothing to do with > approximate FP equality - it means 'not identical', which we can spell "is > not". > > What would approximate FP equality even mean? How approximate?
so you don't really know what it is, but you're sure that "looks the same when printed using a well-defined algorithm" can never be the answer ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list