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Re: Reals and Equal

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• Subject: [mg62101] Re: Reals and Equal
• From: lucb at ea.com
• Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:52:13 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

you are really dealing with machine precision numbers here.
in the first case, Mathematica said that 0.5000000000000071` was equal to 0.5
and in the second case that 0.5000000000000072` was not equal to 0.5
Due to machine precision comparaison that seems like an ok behavior.
If you remove the . in a=1./2 and made it a=1/2 you would see that both test will return false because Mathematica will use the actual exact value.



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