Re: Is this an fwrite/fread bug or just a floating point quirk?

[David Bateman]

Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>> Another solution would be an almost_equal(a, b, tolerance) that acts 
>> like isequal(a,b) but returns true as long as a and b are within a 
>> certain tolerance of each other. And in this case the tolerance would be 
>> the double value where all bits are zero except the bottom 29 which are 1.
>>     
>
> The assert function does something very similar to what you ask.
>
>   
Except that if it fails it returns an error....

D.

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