night_of_knee@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoCan we finally put this one to rest?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1206arrow-down1imageCan we finally put this one to rest?lemmy.worldnight_of_knee@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year agoif (a < b) { return true; } else if (b < a) { return false; } else { return "A == B, bro" }
minus-squarenodiet@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThat 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)
if (a < b) { return true; } else if (b < a) { return false; } else { return "A == B, bro" }That doesn’t work if either one is NaN
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)
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