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		dekhn on March 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many floating-point numbers are in the interva... He references one of my favorite functions, 'nextafter'. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/nextafter I'm the kind of person who understands floats by looking at the underlying bit patterns, and nextafter makes it easy to traverse the integers.

gajjanag on March 2, 2017 [–]

> He references one of my favorite functions, 'nextafter'. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/nextafter

It is a cool function. I remember using it for some testing I did while checking the accuracy of various implementations of basic math functions.

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