values in a conditional expression, as direct comparison can have unexpected results due to numerical accuracy.</p>
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<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="functions">Functions</h2>
<p>Functions are laid out the same way as in languages such as Java and C++. For example,</p>
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