Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > What would approximate FP equality even mean? How approximate?
In APL, it meant "to within [a certain quad-global whose name I don't recall] in terms of relative distance", i.e., if I recall correctly, "a=b" meant something like "abs(a-b)/(abs(a)+abs(b)) < quadEpsilon" or thereabouts. Not too different from Numeric.allclose, except the latter is "richer" (it takes both absolute and relative "epsilons", and also implies an "and-reduce" if the objects being compared are arrays). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
