diff --git a/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Arithmetic/FloatComparison.ql b/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Arithmetic/FloatComparison.ql
index 5233f567fa5..5a2180bfaf3 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Arithmetic/FloatComparison.ql	
+++ b/cpp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/Arithmetic/FloatComparison.ql	
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ where
     FloatingPointType and
   not ro.getAnOperand().isConstant() and // comparisons to constants generate too many false positives
   not left.(VariableAccess).getTarget() = right.(VariableAccess).getTarget() // skip self comparison
-select ro, "Equality test on floating point values may not behave as expected."
+select ro, "Equality checks on floating point values can yield unexpected results."
diff --git a/csharp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/EqualityCheckOnFloats.ql b/csharp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/EqualityCheckOnFloats.ql
index 1884cd5cc5f..bdf3ee4e97c 100644
--- a/csharp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/EqualityCheckOnFloats.ql	
+++ b/csharp/ql/src/Likely Bugs/EqualityCheckOnFloats.ql	
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /**
  * @name Equality check on floating point values
- * @description Equality checks on floating point values can yield unexpected results.
+ * @description Comparing results of floating-point computations with '==' or
+ *              '!=' is likely to yield surprising results since floating-point
+ *              computation does not follow the standard rules of algebra.
  * @kind problem
  * @problem.severity warning
  * @precision medium