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Re:In Erlang/OTP 27, +0.0 will no longer be exactly equal to... by kragen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:07AM (#35883846)
the thread explains in the very first message that the existing semantics caused a subtle compiler bug in a way that makes it clear that you are not just wrong about the semantics of ieee-754 floating point but also about the pragmatics of how this affects real programs
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