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Three-way comparison

In computer science, a three-way comparison takes two values A and B belonging to a type with a total order and determines whether A < B, A = B, or A > B in a single operation, in accordance with the mathematical law of trichotomy.

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Three-way comparison

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Avg. degree1.96
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Three-way comparison

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related to Abilities · 12
Three-way comparison → Apache Groovy, EQ, Haskell, In, In Perl, KotlincompareTofunctions, OCamlcompare, PHP, Ruby, The Python, They, This
related to Spaceship operator · 7
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related to Composite data types · 3
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arithmetic overflow mentioned belowinstance ofthe same can be computed using theMath.signumstatic method if the difference can be known without computational problems0.80text
Three-way comparisonrelated to AbilitiesIn0.60section
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Three-way comparisonrelated to AbilitiesOCamlcompare0.60section
Three-way comparisonrelated to AbilitiesKotlincompareTofunctions0.60section
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