%eps ?!

[Frédéric Mabille]

Hi,

During the computation of my program, my function "if" produce a strange result.
I fact, after many investigations, I have observed a very surprising result.

for i = 1:10
test = .4*i - 1.2 ;
if test == 0 then ...

But when i = 3, scilab give me : test = %eps = -2.220D-16 <> 0 !!!
It is really awkward.

Could someone have a simple solution ?
Thx 

Frédéric 
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