/*
 * LensKit, an open source recommender systems toolkit.
 * Copyright 2010-2014 LensKit Contributors.  See CONTRIBUTORS.md.
 * Work on LensKit has been funded by the National Science Foundation under
 * grants IIS 05-34939, 08-08692, 08-12148, and 10-17697.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
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 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
 * details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
 * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51
 * Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 */
package org.lenskit.util.math;

public final class Scalars {
    private Scalars() {}

    /**
     * Check whether a value is zero, using a default epsilon.
     * @param val The value.
     * @return {@code true} if the value is within an epsilon of zero.
     */
    public static boolean isZero(double val) {
        return isZero(val, Double.MIN_NORMAL);
    }

    /**
     * Check whether a value is zero, using a configurable epsilon.
     * @param val The value.
     * @param epsilon The tolerance.
     * @return {@code true} if absolute value of {@code val} is less than {@code epsilon}.
     */
    public static boolean isZero(double val, double epsilon) {
        return Math.abs(val) < epsilon;
    }
}

@@ -1055,27 +1055,526 @@
     
-private Scalars() %7B
+/**%0A     * The default epsilon for checking for zero.  If the Java system property %7B@code lenskit.zero.epsilon%7D is set,%0A     * the value of that is used; otherwise, %7B@link Double#MIN_NORMAL%7D.%0A     */%0A    public static final double DEFAULT_EPSILON;%0A%0A    private Scalars() %7B%7D%0A%0A    static %7B%0A        String prop = System.getProperty(%22lenskit.zero.epsilon%22);%0A        if (prop == null) %7B%0A            DEFAULT_EPSILON = Double.MIN_NORMAL;%0A        %7D else %7B%0A            DEFAULT_EPSILON = Double.parseDouble(prop);%0A        %7D%0A    
 %7D%0A%0A 
@@ -1826,32 +1826,30 @@
 o(val, D
-ouble.MIN_NORMAL
+EFAULT_EPSILON
 );%0A    %7D

Make default epsilon configurable.