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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
if (a < b) {
    return true;
} else if (b < a) {
    return false;
} else {
    return "A == B, bro"
}
[–] Lachy 6 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t work if either one is NaN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is literally how we implemented an algorithm to check for equivalence in a privacy preserving way. Only that you can't check the results of the evaluation so you have to do 1-(a<b)-(b<a)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

typed languages seeing this