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		jjuhl on April 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens if you remove randomness from Doom? Which is why you should never use == with floats/doubles, but always <=, >=, <, > and why modern compilers have warnings you can enable to tell you when you do ==.

TheLoneWolfling on April 24, 2015 [–]

While true, that's irrelevant to my point. The same thing occurs with this:

    if( a <= x/y )
      assert( a <= x/y );

Or with any other of the operators you mention (<, <=, >, >=).

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