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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal (blog.codingconfessions.com)
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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

That makes sense, but then you'd just have people converting the int to a float manually and run into the exact same issues.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean honestly its expected u should check floats similarity not equivalence.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. But the less experienced programmers I know are surprisingly naive about this.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah its gonna be one of those problems chatgpt ain't gonna help

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