From: Michael Geary <Mike@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T07:23:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Major Addition Bug? (We have a winner!)

> Michael Geary <Mike@DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote:
> > Financial calculations aren't done in floating point. There
> > are various number formats that are used, but they all boil
> > down to some form of integer arithmetic. For example,
> > fixed point decimal may be used, where the value $625.91
> > is represented as the integer 62591 with a scaling factor of
> > two decimal places. In other words, the arithmetic is
> > actually done in pennies, not dollars.

Phil Tomson wrote:
> This seems to be the 100,000th post to Ruby-talk (at least
> the English version).

Cool! And it was my *first* post to the group.

This Must Mean Something.

> What has our player won?

I know! I know! Can I get a free copy of Ruby?

(I was up till 4AM this morning reading the pickaxe book. Had a bad cold,
couldn't sleep and couldn't think well enough to write any code, and I'd
been meaning to investigate Ruby a bit. Very interesting! I like dynamic
languages such as Python and JavaScript, and I especially like languages
with expressive power. Ruby looks like it has a lot going for it.)

-Mike