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		nine_k on March 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many floating-point numbers are in the interva... -0 is "below zero, but for so little that we cannot represent", so it's outside [0, 1].

kr7 on March 2, 2017 [–]

Though for the purposes of comparisons, -0 and +0 are the same in IEEE 754.

So the expression "x >= 0.0f && x <= 1.0f" is true for x = -0.

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