From: Kenta Murata <muraken@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T12:37:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30042] Re: [Feature #1408] 0.1.to_r not equal to (1/10)

Float#rationalize is added again at r27503.
Please check that revision.

On 2010/05/06, at 7:23, Marc-Andre Lafortune wrote:

> Maybe a kind Japanese reader can provide the gist of [ruby-dev:41061]
> to explain why was Float#rationalize removed?
> 
> I would also appreciate opinions as to why it wouldn't be a net
> improvement if to_r used the rationalize algorithm and some other
> methods were provided for anyone wanting the value of the
> representation (e.g. Float#representation which would return [sign,
> mantissa, significand] and/or Float#representation_to_r would give the
> rational corresponding to the internal representation of that float)
> 

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