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		eru on March 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to compare floats in Python How do you determine the fudge factor? Eg if you compare (x + 1.2) + (x + 2.3) < (2*x + 3.6) that goes wrong for big enough x.

wheelerof4te on March 31, 2022 [–]

Use the round function in that case.

eru on March 31, 2022 | [–]

How is that going to help? What precision do you want to round to?

You know that at big enough values, floating point numbers are farther apart than integers?

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