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| Compares two floating point values and returns true if they are similar. | Compares two floating point values and returns true if they are similar. | ||
| - | Floating point imprecision makes comparing floats using the equals operator inaccurate. For example, (1.0 == 10.0 / 10.0) might not return true every time. Approximately() compares two floats and returns true if they are within a small value (Epsilon*) of each other. | + | Floating point imprecision makes comparing floats using the equals operator inaccurate. For example, (1.0 == 10.0 / 10.0) might not return true every time. Approximately() compares two floats and returns true if they are within a small value (//Epsilon//((Epsilon is defined as: The smallest value that a float can have different from zero.))) of each other. |
| See [[https:// | See [[https:// | ||
| - | *Epsilon is defined as: The smallest value that a float can have different from zero. | + | If you came to this documentation for an API to handle an approximation that's much larger than (// |
| ===== Examples ===== | ===== Examples ===== | ||
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