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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:17:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Al Chou <hotfusionman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [math] proposed ordering for task list, scope of initial release
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--- Phil Steitz <phil@steitz.com> wrote:
> Al Chou wrote:
> > --- Brent Worden <brent@worden.org> wrote:
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Phil Steitz [mailto:steitzp@yahoo.com]
> >>>Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:21 PM
[deletia]
> >>Something similar to JUnit's assertEquals(double expected, double actual,
> >>double epsilon).
> > 
> This is a good idea.
> 
> > 
> > Is JUnit's license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ibmpl.php) Apache
> > compatible?
> >
> 
> I think that Brent is talking about defining a new function called 
> something like approximatelyEquals() that returned a boolean.  The 
> signature, semantics and implementation of this would be different from 
> JUnit.

Ah, OK.  That could be useful indeed.


> >>Simple methods like isPositive, isNegative, etc. can be used to make
> boolean
> >>expressions more human readable.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm willing to build those two on top of sign (I'm so generous with my
> coding
> > time, eh? <g>).  Are those two sufficient?  sign treats 0 as positive,
> which
> > may not be desirable.
> > 
> +1 (especially the part about your time :-)

OK, I'll TDD those up, hopefully resolving the question of what to do about the
sign of 0 in the process.



Al

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