Re: [boost] Is floating_point_comparison.hpp general purpose tool?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is floating_point_comparison.hpp general purpose tool?
From: Rhys Ulerich (rhys.ulerich_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-31 11:45:10

> I'm wondering why the floating-point algorithms [1] implementation
> in floating_point_comparison.hpp lives in Boost UTF.

I've also wondered this and have used UTF's floating point comparison
algorithms outside test code.  Creating a new header like
<boost/math/fpcompare.hpp> to parallel the existing
<boost/math/fpclassify.hpp> under the floating point utils [1] could
be useful.

- Rhys

[1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_toolkit/utils.html