Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:31:36 +1000
"Anthony Towns" <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:35:14PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > > It can't use real numbers anyway. Otherwise, how would it compare:
> > > 1.02.4-5.6 and 1.1.3-3.1
> > It should be broken down at each decimal point, and the decimal point
> > retained
> > i.e. 1.02.4 brakes down to compare in order 1, 0.02, 0.4
>
> No, it shouldn't. Consider, eg, treating 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 as "2, 0.2,
> 0.9" and "2, 0.2, 0.10".
>
Yes, i am obviously wrong, trying to compare 0.9 and 0.10 is incorrect, as
is treating 0.1 as equal to 0.01
> If you're really so ignorant that you don't understand the way it
> currently works and why it works that way, and so lazy that you can't
> even be bothered looking for the obvious problems that suggestion would
> cause that make it not even worth considering in passing, you shouldn't
> be posting to this list. The above idiocy isn't even worth the time it
> takes to hit "d".
>
You are obviously a reasonable and understanding person, i hope you get to
moderate who is allowed to post to devel.
(sarcasm)
Glenn
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