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What’s wrong with using == to compare floats in Java?

According to this java.sun page == is the equality comparison operator for floating point numbers in Java. However, when I type this code: ...

June 4, 2022
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Why are these numbers not equal?

The following code is obviously wrong. What’s the problem? i <- 0.1 i <- i + 0.05 i ##...

May 17, 2022
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How dangerous is it to compare floating point values?

I know UIKit uses CGFloat because of the resolution independent coordinate system. But every time I want to check if for example frame.origin.x ...

May 7, 2022
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Is floating point math broken?

Consider the following code: 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 -> false 0.1 + 0.2 -> 0.30000000000000004 Why do these inaccuracies happen? 3 31

April 9, 2022
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