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  2. From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c
  4. Subject: Re: Help, best way to compare doubles
  5. Date: 15 Jan 1996 16:13:22 GMT
  6. Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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  13. In-reply-to: coats@mcnc.org's message of 15 Jan 1996 11:48:52 GMT
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  15. --text follows this line--
  16. In article <4ddev4$1vg@stingray.mcnc.org> coats@mcnc.org (Carlie
  17. Coats) writes: 
  18. <snip>
  19.    or (equvalently, but in decently-efficient C):
  20.  
  21. ...though undefined according to the ANSI C standard...
  22.  
  23.        ( t = a - b )*t < esquared * ( a*a + b*b  + delta )
  24.  
  25. Cheers
  26. Tanmmoy
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