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Thu, 03 April 2014 11:44

Phillip Bitzer
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On Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:57:32 PM UTC-5, Mats Löfdahl wrote:
> Try printing the difference between that last value in the array and the value you are looking for. They probably differ in decimal four or later.

As a follow on, testing equality in floats is not a good idea. This goes under the "sky is falling" category:

http://www.idlcoyote.com/math_tips/sky_is_falling.html

http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/compar ingfloats.htm

		where function not finding value By: mboggsk9 on Thu, 03 April 2014 10:44
		Re: where function not finding value By: Mats Löfdahl on Thu, 03 April 2014 10:57
		Re: where function not finding value By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 April 2014 11:29
		Re: where function not finding value By: Phillip Bitzer on Thu, 03 April 2014 11:44
		Re: where function not finding value By: mboggsk9 on Thu, 03 April 2014 14:15
		Re: where function not finding value By: Jahvasc on Tue, 10 March 2015 11:12
		Re: where function not finding value By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 March 2015 11:42
		Re: where function not finding value By: Jahvasc on Tue, 10 March 2015 13:06
		Re: where function not finding value By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 March 2015 13:15
		Re: where function not finding value By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 10 March 2015 12:01
		Re: where function not finding value By: Jahvasc on Tue, 10 March 2015 13:15
		Re: where function not finding value By: Burch on Tue, 10 March 2015 13:19
		Re: where function not finding value By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 10 March 2015 19:34
		Re: where function not finding value By: Jahvasc on Wed, 11 March 2015 02:16
		Re: where function not finding value By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 11 March 2015 07:06
		Re: where function not finding value By: Phillip Bitzer on Wed, 11 March 2015 09:24

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