On 2005-06-14, at 19:29, Russell Shaw wrote:

The original bug was about testing the equality of doubles. I think that's
just plain mathematically bad. Error bands should be used to test for
"equality", using a band that is in accordance with the minimum precision
specified in the compiler documentation.


To be a bit more precise: don't use the precision specified in the compiler but the precision you expect for the overall algorithms numerical stability.

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