What's wrong with using == to compare floats in Java?

Question

According to this java.sun page == is the equality comparison operator for floating point numbers in Java.

However, when I type this code:

Answer 1

In addition to previous answers, you should be aware that there are strange behaviours associated with -0.0f and +0.0f (they are == but not equals) and Float.NaN (it is equals but not ==) (hope I've got that right - argh, don't do it!).

Edit: Let's check!

import static java.lang.Float.NaN;
public class Fl {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.err.println(          -0.0f   ==              0.0f);   // true
        System.err.println(new Float(-0.0f).equals(new Float(0.0f))); // false
        System.err.println(            NaN   ==               NaN);   // false
        System.err.println(new Float(  NaN).equals(new Float( NaN))); // true
    }
} 

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