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lutusptoday at 4:59 AM0 repliesview on HN

> This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of floating point issues on the programmers part.

If that were true, it would serve no purpose, since competently written floating-point expressions are already optimal, given the well-understood limitations of modern floating-point processing.

> Is this comment written by AI?

That's a non sequitur that resolves nothing, and a remark that would get you disqualified in a formal debate.

Ah -- I get it. In modern times, if someone composes coherent prose, and since no mere mortals can do that any more, the reply must have originated with AI.

A reply like yours leaves the originator in the position of needing to prove a negative, which is impossible, which is why it breaks the time-honored rules of formal debate.