Anyway if you are willing shoot yourself in the foot:<div><br></div><div><div>1> F = fun(X) when is_float(X) -> <<V:32,_/binary>> = <<X/float>>, V end.</div><div>#Fun<erl_eval.6.82930912></div>
<div>2> [F(X) || X<-[0.99999998, 1.000000, 1.99999976, 1.99999988]].</div><div>[1072693247,1072693248,1073741823,1073741823]</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Hynek Vychodil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hynek@gooddata.com" target="_blank">hynek@gooddata.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>1> 0.99999998 < 1.000000. </div><div>true</div><div>2> 1.99999976 < 1.99999988.</div><div>true</div>
<div><br></div><div>What's the problem?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Angel J. Alvarez Miguel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clist@uah.es" target="_blank">clist@uah.es</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Hi guys</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I need to compare two floats something like 0.99999998... vs 1.000000</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">and we came across accuracy problems when testing dihedral angles on a molecule...</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">so we read <a href="http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">and wanted to implement something like:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:#0000ff">if</span> (*(<span style="color:#0000ff">int</span>*)&f1 < *(<span style="color:#0000ff">int</span>*)&f2)...</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">when ef1 and f2 are floats... (f1 about 0.9999899.. and f2=1.0</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">is think we should start with...</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><<Padding:16,Myint:64>> = term_to_binary(1.9999976,[{minor_version,1}]).</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">and let Padding swallow the external format and tag while Myint gets the ieee754 float </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">But MyInt = 4611686017346523993 instead of <span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">1073741822</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">these conversion should follow ieee754 and being lexicografic ordered</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">but ...</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">term_to_binary(1.99999976,[{minor_version,1}]). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">term_to_binary(1.99999988,[{minor_version,1}]).</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">doesnt seem to be the same thatn you spect to see after reading that page...</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt;vertical-align:bottom">..What im doing wrong....?</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">ieee754 layout....</p>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">+1.99999976</span> </p></td>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">0x3FFFFFFE</span> </p></td>
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<p align="right" style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">1073741822</span> </p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">+1.99999988</span> </p></td>
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<p align="right" style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">1073741823</span> </p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">+2.00000000</span> </p></td>
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<p align="right" style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">1073741824</span> </p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">+2.00000024</span> </p></td>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">0x40000001</span> </p></td>
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<p align="right" style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">1073741825</span> </p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">+2.00000048</span> </p></td>
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<p align="right" style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10pt">1073741826</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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