31 Mar
2010
31 Mar
'10
7:47 p.m.
Olaf Peter
Our esteemed and illustrious author of the invaluable Test library was begged not to use percents but ...
why this?
1. Backward compatibility 2. In laymen terms it's easier to understand % based comparison: a different from b by x percent. Otherwise you need to understand notion of relative error, which may not be the case unless you expert in the field. One other point is that the error message clearly referred to the %. It should have gave you a hint. Gennadiy