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Re: atom = problem?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at ?m?il.com> Apr 28, 2008
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CChris wrote:
> 
> You shouldn't use string conversion to compare atoms, because of the limited
> precision of floating point numbers in hardware.
> Use atom_to_float64() in machine.e instead to obtain a sequence of 8 bytes,
> which is the internal representation of the number. Then comparing these
> sequences of equal length becomes unambiguous.

Actually, as long as you use scientific notation, it uses the full precision
available to 64-bit floating point.  We should probably get there will all
floating point.

Matt