From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-04-10T05:16:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29400] Re: [Feature #2152] Split functionality of 	Float#inspect and Float#to_s

> So, double have a range (between two of them) of 2e-52 ~ 10e-16. Should we then round at 15-16 digits?

I think 1.9.1 does this slightly wrong, but 1.9.2 does it right:

1.9.1:
>> 1.4 - 0.1 - 1.2
=> 0.09999999999999986677

1.9.2:
>>  1.4 - 0.1 - 1.2
=> 0.09999999999999987

So whatever the 1.9.2 logic is, I guess stick with that.

>
>
> There is no silver bullet against floating point error :-)
>
>  "%.15f" % (1.9 + 0.7 - 0.2)  #=> "2.399999999999999"

Yeah I guess after you do many operations floating point operations get you.

-rp