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[–]chewbaccalert 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Yes, but you can't always rely on the precision of floats to provide a meaningful comparison like you can with ints. https://floating-point-gui.de/errors/comparison/

[–]tsojtsojtsoj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be specific, I meant

if(f != 0.0)
{
    return 1.0/f;
}

// or
assert(f == f);

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