Re: [boost] boost-test, why is there no DOUBLES_EQUAL?

Subject: Re: [boost] boost-test, why is there no DOUBLES_EQUAL?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-09 11:42:21

AMDG

On 04/09/2011 08:28 AM, Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Gennadiy Rozental<rogeeff_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr.<jeffrey.hellrung<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>>> In any case, usual or not, do we accept that absolute
>>> tolerances are sometimes preferable to relative tolerances?
>>> I would.
>>
>> I would not. In my experience I've never seen a necessity for one
>> (excluding the case where you want to check if something is small.
>
> How about when doing calculations with money?
>

Dealing with money in floating point probably
isn't the best idea to begin with.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe