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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal
(blog.codingconfessions.com)
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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If bits aren't same then i dont want it to tell me they are the same. And python just has one implementation for int and float.
I like python cos everything's an object i dont want different types of objects to evaluate the same they are fundamentally different objects is that not what u would expect?
Even in python you can have control of what types of numbers are used under the hood with numpy arrays (and chances are if you are using floats in any quantity you want to be using numpy). I would be very surprised if
array([1,2,3], dtype=uint8) == array([1,2,3], dtype=int16)gave[False, False, False]. In general I think==for numbers should give mathematical equivalence, with the understanding that comparing floats is highly likely to give false negatives unless you are extremely careful with what you are comparing.Numpys more or less a math wrapper for c isnt it?
More Fortran than C, but its the same for any language doing those sorts of array mathematics, they will be calling compiled versions of blas and lapack. Numpy builds up low level highly optimised compiled functions into a coherant python ecosystem. A numpy array is a C array with some metadata sure, but a python list is also just a C array of pointers to pyobjects.