Re: Floating point equal to Integer Value ?

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From: Sanjay kumar
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 07:37

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Hi I think it would be no problem if you convert float to integer
instead of interger to float just for comparision purpose

instead of (float(x) == y) 
to (x == (int) y)

this will never fail.

Sanjay 

"Alya Al Omrani" <alomrani@emirates.net.ae> wrote in message news:<9iejot$4an2@news.emirates.net.ae>...
> Hi, how can i check if a floating point value is equal to integer value ?
> I tried looking of there is a function that does so but there isn't
> 
> I tried doing the following
> 
> /* lets say those are my values */
> int x=20;
> float x=20.0, z;
> 
> z=(float)x;
> /* I used a printf staetment to check that the value of x was assigned to z
> and it worked ! */
> printf("%f", z);
> 
> /* here i want to check */
> if(z==x)                      /* at this instant it freezes */
>     printf("values are equal");
> else
>     printf("they r not euqal");
> ///////////////
> 
> 
> I sthere a substitue method that i can do so, i tried taking the % modulus
> of both z and x to see if it will give zero but i got same erro, the program
> wont compile

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