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		maxbond on June 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Equals' has more than one meaning in math You have not yet imagined a reason, and neither have I. That doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Likely it would be something idiosyncratic involving legacy code that would only make sense in a real world context - "we have to change the way it sorts to fix ticket ABC123, but we can't change the equality, or we'll have a regression of ABC456."

auggierose on June 19, 2024 [–]

Then provide a comparator to sort differently, no problem.

There will never be a good reason for the spec to be like that. Just look how people here justify the mess of BigDecimal.

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