[#144] Another implementation of Bignum — "Dmitry Antipov" <dmitry.antipov@...>

Hello Ruby hackers,

15 messages 2002/06/06

RE: Bignum bug

From: "Christoph" <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-06-14 20:34:40 UTC
List: ruby-core #173

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:45 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Bignum bug
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "RE: Bignum bug"
>     on 02/06/14, "Christoph" <chr_news@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> |> You get the same result from Python too.
> |>
> |>   10L**400 + 10L**400 > 0.0 + 10L**400          # false
> |
> |Which version are you using?
> 
> I was using Python 2.1.3.

``Googleing around'' I found

www.python.org/2.2/bugs.html

which mentions this difference in behavior in the section

``Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.1] and 
Python 2.2'' 


/Christoph


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