On 2006-08-10, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, because numeric_cmp says that 1.0 and 1.00 are equal (what else
>> could it say? "less" and "greater" are surely wrong). So you need to
>
> It could say "not equal" pretty reasonably as the scale is
> different.
The comparison function must be trichotomous, that is the possible results
are "equal", "greater", and "less". There is no other "not equal" result.
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