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		da12 on March 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to compare floats in Python Could you explain what you mean the 0.0 case? math.isclose() has an abs_tol parameter for, among other things, handling comparisons to 0.

longemen3000 on March 31, 2022 | [–]

The Julia equivalent does a good job explaining the 0.0 case: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.isapprox

macintux on March 30, 2022 | [–]

I assume “out of the box” is the distinction.

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