comparing floats

[bpc007]

I am writing a program in C and I need to directly compare 2 floats. I can not use the == operator, so what can i do to compare them?

Brian, http://bpc007.cjb.net

[Igor Soukhov]

It's aint easy to answer a question without complete understanding of it ... But I try:
Why you can't use == operator ? If it's kinda test you always can substruct one float variable from other and check the sign of the result.

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[Paul McKenzie]

Subtract the two values and see if the absolute value of the difference falls within a small tolerance level. If it does, then you can assume that the values are equal.

However, if you are writing a financial application using 'C', you should *never* use floats or doubles. Instead, you have to use integers, or get yourself a library that handles money values in exact amounts (a BCD library or some other type of large integer / fixed point library).

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Paul McKenzie