Re: Inexact floating-point compare

Terje Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 
: The easiest method would seem to be a subtract, scale, add and compare:
: 
: double inexact_compare(double a, double b, int bits_to_skip)
: {
:   // First the the regular difference:
:   double diff = b - a;
: 
:   // Shift this difference down by the number of bits to ignore:
:   double scaled_diff = diff / ((double) (2 << bits_to_skip));
:

This does not work for floating point..... or am I missing something 
obvious?

Regards,
--buddy


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