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Re:Essential facts about floating point calculations on Monday July 06, 2015 @04:08AM (#9837543) 

    if( abs(x - y) < 1e-6 ).
Testing for absolute error is often incorrect. Here is a better floating point comparator:

http://floating-point-gui.de/errors/comparison/