> > Um, I don't think it's right to *always* do the comparison > > floating point. Specifically, if both operands are ints, > > the comparison should be int. > > I thought about this, but all it buys you is a few bits of precision when > your ints and floats are both 64-bit, and slower comparisons all the time. > IMHO it's a wash, so I did it this way.
If A = 2^30 and B = 2^30+1, won't they be the identical value when converted to IEEE floats on a 32-bit platform? IEEE floats have a 23 bit mantissa, which isn't enough to differentiate between 1^30 and 1^30+1^0, since 30 - 0 > 23. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Mike Lambert
