Equality and Relational Operators

• Do not use == to compare equality of real numbers.

• Real values may not be stored accurately.

if ((a/3)*3 == a)

printf("Hello!\n");

• To test equality of 2 real numbers, test their difference instead (use fabs()), and take them as equal if the difference is small enough.

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