Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Fix whitespace in comparison.html #84

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Fix whitespace in comparison.html #84

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions content/errors/comparison.html
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@

if (a == b) { // shortcut, handles infinities
return true;
} else if (a == 0 || b == 0 || (absA + absB < Float.MIN_NORMAL)) {
} else if (a == 0 || b == 0 || (absA + absB < Float.MIN_NORMAL)) {
// a or b is zero or both are extremely close to it
// relative error is less meaningful here
return diff < (epsilon * Float.MIN_NORMAL);
Expand All @@ -68,4 +68,4 @@

This is conceptually very clear and easy and has the advantage of implicitly scaling the relative error margin with the magnitude of the values. Technically, it's a bit more complex, but not as much as you might think, because IEEE 754 floats are designed to maintain their order when their bit patterns are interpreted as integers.

However, this method does require the programming language to support conversion between floating-point values and integer bit patterns. Read the [Comparing floating-point numbers](/references/) paper for more details.
However, this method does require the programming language to support conversion between floating-point values and integer bit patterns. Read the [Comparing floating-point numbers](/references/) paper for more details.