From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2012-04-12T09:17:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44295] Re: Bigdecimal / 1.0 => Float?

Hi,

(12/04/12 0:17), Thomas E Enebo wrote:
> b = BigDecimal("1") / 1.0
> p b, b.class
> 
> I was surprised to see b.class print out as a Float.  Can someone
> explain why this is?

While BigDecimal has precision info, but Float doesn't.  So `b' also
doesn't have.  Therefore it can't be BigDecimal.

Does this make sense?

-- 
Nobu Nakada