What's the difference between IComparable & IEquatable interfaces?

Question

both the interfaces seem to compare objects for equality, so what\'s the major differences between them?

Answer 1

In addition to Greg D's answer:

You might implement IComparable without implementing IEquatable for a class where a partial ordering makes sense, and where you very definitely want the consumer to infer that just because CompareTo() returns zero, this does not imply that the objects are equal (for anything other than sorting purposes).