[Python-Dev] nice() (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 16 01:03:27 CET 2006
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Smith wrote:
The problem with areclose(), however, is that it only solves one part of the problem that needs to be solved if two fp's are going to be compared: if you are going to check if a < b you would need to do something like
not areclose(a,b) and a < b
No, no, no.
If your algorithm is well-designed, it won't matter which way the comparison goes if a and b are that close.
In any case, the idea behind nice() is fundamentally doomed. IT CANNOT WORK, because the numbers it's returning are still binary, not decimal.
Greg
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