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Most effective way for float and double comparison

I am new to C++. I had a doubt, while reading C++.
How to decide two floating point numbers equal to each other or not ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Obviously, you should not use operator == to compare them.

The important concept here is if the difference of your two floating point number is small enough to the precision requirement of your problem to solve or smaller than your error range, we should consider them as equal.

There are some practical methods suggestions such as

  fabs(f1 - f2) < precision-requirement
  fabs(f1 - f2) < max(fabs(f1), fabs(f2)) * percentage-precision-requirement