On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:40 AM, go-question <question.develo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When working with Floating-point values in Go, what considerations need to > be made? > > The same for any other language? > > The Spec says that "Floating-point values are comparable and ordered" > https://golang.org/ref/spec#Comparison_operators > > So is comparing by some epsilon value not needed? or only for computed > values? > http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/Comparing%20floating%20point%20numbers.htm > > What is recommended (without external packages) when multiplying or adding > Floating-point values? > I know that internally those operations can be imprecise. > https://github.com/shopspring/decimal#faq > http://floating-point-gui.de/basic/
This classic paper applies to Go just as much as it does to other programming languages: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
