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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Pyne</b> <<a href="mailto:pynm0001@comcast.net">pynm0001@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I don't understand why it's called BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE for that reason, and<br>COMPARE_FLOAT doesn't sound descriptive enough. But epsilon is more of a
<br>computer science term and may be unclear to new programmers. I still like<br>epsilon better though.</blockquote>
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<div>Epsilon is the correct term as it is also the one used by the base libraries to define the precision of the types (eg. DBL_EPSILON).</div>
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<div>Rich.</div><br> </div><br>