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Comparison of float variables

- February 27, 2024 at 6:55 pm
  
  Román Garnica
  Subscriber
  
  In SCADE Suite, during simulation the result of a comparison of float variables is false while the values are identical. Why do I get this incorrect result?
- February 28, 2024 at 2:29 pm
  
  Benjamin Descorps
  Ansys Employee
  
  This result most probably comes from the fact that you are doing a strict comparison of real/float values.
  In any program (and not simply Scade), it is not recommended to perform such a comparison. Indeed float values depend on the processor precision. Then a "real" value 3.6 could be represented as 3.60000001 by a machine. As, in the Simulator, default precision for float values is set to 5 digits after the coma, this difference could not be seen.
  In the properties of your SCADE etp project, you can change the number of digits used by the simulator to display real/float values. By changing the precision, you could check that the result of the comparison is really "false".
  When your program requires to compare float/real values that are in a very close scale, it is rather recommended to protect the comparison operation by use of an Epsilon precision: "B == A +/- Epsilon". Example1:
  Here is another possible implementation. Example2:

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