I am struggling with a basic floating-point precision issue. Here is the problem:
double d = 0.1;
d += 0.1;
d += 0.1;
d == 0.3 ? std::cout << "yes" : std::cout << "no";
Run the code and you get "no"
I understand that C/C++ store values in binary and that binary storage can not exactly store every value. I also understand that these small errors compound as you do various math operations on them (i.e. d += 0.1;).
My questions is if I do need to test if d == 0.3 (to a reasonable precision.. as is the clear intent of code above)... how do I do that? I hope the answer is not:
if (d > 0.2999 && d < 0.3001) ...
ALSO.. this works
float f = 0.1;
f += 0.1;
f += 0.1;
f == 0.3f ? std::cout << "yes" : std::cout << "no";
but I can find no equivalent "0.3d" in the language.
Thanks
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