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Re:Negative Base by saagarjha on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:28PM (#17420991)
But only when imposing a total ordering.
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Re:Negative Base by foxhill on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:33PM (#17421011)
that’s not the case, in IEE754 floating point, zero is signed - i.e negative and positive zero are distinct values
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Re:Negative Base by saagarjha on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:46PM (#17421620)
But the standard comparison operators don’t distinguish them.
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