Originally posted on reddit seven months ago.

if (a < b) {
    return true;
} else if (b < a) {
    return false;
} else {
    return "A == B, bro"
}
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typed languages seeing this

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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