Floating point equality and tolerances

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This blogpost contains an example, fairly foolproof implementation, and detailed theory behind it
http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-floating-point-numbers-2012-edition/
it is also one of a series, so you can always read more.
In short: use ULP for most numbers, use epsilon for numbers near zero, but there are still caveats. If you want to be sure about your floating point math i recommend reading whole series.

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