Re: RFD: "equal" vs "equivalent" in Float.NaN, Double.NaN

2024-11-07 Thread Joseph D. Darcy
On 11/1/2024 1:19 PM, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM Joseph D. Darcy wrote: A few releases back, a discussion of "quality, equivalence, and comparison of floating-point values" was added to java.lang.Double: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/ap

Re: RFD: "equal" vs "equivalent" in Float.NaN, Double.NaN

2024-11-01 Thread Eirik Bjørsnøs
On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM Joseph D. Darcy wrote: > A few releases back, a discussion of "quality, equivalence, and comparison > of floating-point values" was added to java.lang.Double: > > > https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Double.html#equivalenceRelatio

Re: RFD: "equal" vs "equivalent" in Float.NaN, Double.NaN

2024-11-01 Thread Joseph D. Darcy
On 11/1/2024 12:11 PM, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote: Hi, Just an observation from a floating point layman: I noticed that Float and Double uses "It is equal to the value.." when describing various constant values like MIN_VALUE, MAX_VALUE etc. A few releases back, a discussion of "quality, equival