diff --git a/indra/llprimitive/llmodel.h b/indra/llprimitive/llmodel.h
index 90c1c252ed5a5080dc22a45466895fe7592bf4c5..74e5657d28d352fe8bb06c9ba310824a73a07fb9 100644
--- a/indra/llprimitive/llmodel.h
+++ b/indra/llprimitive/llmodel.h
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ class LLModel : public LLVolume
 		bool areEqual( double a, double b )
 		{
 			const float epsilon = 1e-5f;
-			return (abs(a - b) > epsilon) && (a < b);
+			return (abs((int)(a - b)) > epsilon) && (a < b);
 		}
 		//Make sure that we return false for any values that are within the tolerance for equivalence
 		bool operator() ( const LLVector3& a, const LLVector3& b )