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33 .Nm isgreater , isgreaterequal , isless , islessequal ,
34 .Nm islessgreater , isunordered
35 .Nd "compare two floating-point numbers"
41 .Fn isgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
43 .Fn isgreaterequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
45 .Fn isless "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
47 .Fn islessequal "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
49 .Fn islessgreater "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
51 .Fn isunordered "real-floating x" "real-floating y"
64 and return a non-zero value if and only if its nominal
70 These macros always return zero if either
71 argument is not a number (NaN), but unlike the corresponding C
72 operators, they never raise a floating point exception.
80 and returns non-zero if and only if neither
85 For any pair of floating-point values, one
86 of the relationships (less, greater, equal, unordered) holds.
103 The relational macros described above first appeared in