From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-10-18T22:19:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Rounding to X digits


"Gavin Kistner" <gavin@refinery.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1ABCF62A-2107-11D9-A7C3-000A959CF5AC@refinery.com...
> On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:19 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> >>     puts 0.5.round             #=> 1
> >>     puts sprintf("%.0f", 0.5)  #=> 0
> > Which version of Ruby are you using?
> >>> sprintf("%.0f", 0.5)
> > => "1"
> >>> RUBY_VERSION
> > => "1.8.1"
>
> [Slim:~] gavinkis% ruby -e "p Array.new(10000).collect{

Do you think the 10000 makes it more convincing? :-)

> sprintf('%.0f',0.5) }.uniq"
> ["0"]
> [Slim:~] gavinkis% ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [powerpc-darwin7.5.0]

Now, is this due to the Ruby version or rather the libC version (I tested
with cygwin)?

Kind regards

    robert