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You’re right here I think, but it is a hard problem in practice I noticed. Hard in the engineering sense, because you’re sometimes writing generic library-level code that needs a domain specific notion of error bars and tolerances. So you need to parametrize everything, sometimes for multiple dimensions. Becomes messy quickly.

I must admit putting a mystery epsilon in my code here and there for that reason. Admittedly the wrong thing to do.




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