# 054. Consider using a tolerance to compare floats
topic: {ref}`basics`
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If the arrays are INTEGER or CHARACTER, then the comparison can be exact. For REAL or COMPLEX arrays, you should consider using a suitably small tolerance when comparing values. This and the previous tip are from urbanjost.
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