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		hcrisp on March 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comparing Floating-Point Numbers Is Tricky There was a very good article explaining this using MATLAB, but I can't find it right now. This one is pretty close and explains the concepts of overflow, underflow, etc. The diagrams about "eps" are pretty good, even if your language of choice is Python, C/C++, etc. http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2014/07/07/floating-point-n...

ubernostrum on March 31, 2017 [–]

Python has math.isclose() in the standard library, with configurable tolerances:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html#math.isclose

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