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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal
(blog.codingconfessions.com)
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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Meh. Imo anyone comparing an integer to a float and not expecting one of them to be implicitly casted to the other's type will create that issue for themselves when doing the same thing with an explicit cast.
What I meant is, the former can be a genuine mistake, the latter is a conscious (probably uneducated) decision