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Hi,

the MSDN documentation on Object.Equals says:

This method can be overridden by a derived class.... The following statements must be true for all implementations of the Equals method...
x.Equals(x) returns true, except in cases that involve floating-point types. See IEC 60559:1989, Binary Floating-point Arithmetic for Microprocessor Systems.

so all it says is xfloat.Equals(xfloat) is ALLOWED to return false; it just leaves the Equals() result for floats undefined.

The IEC standard isn't available for free, so I can't check this, however I assume they call the result of x==x undefined, hence hardware that implements IEC 60559:1989, and software running on such hardware, would find it difficult to enforce x.Equals(x) returns true.

The fundamental reason is it does not make sense at all to test two floats for equality; by their very nature, float values are either close to each other (difference less than epsilon), or they are not. Zero does not exist in nature.

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