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Your example is actually quite well chosen: What does it mean for some poses to be equal? The only auto-generated way would be this one, e.g. comparing floats for equality. Is 3.00000001 really different from 3.0000002?

One could argue that float equality would be at least something, but in my opinion this might lead to people accidentally using that.

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