From: jim@...
Date: 2004-10-29T00:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rounding error, (100.0 * 9.95).to_i == 994

* Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> [2004-10-29 00:06:46 +0900]:

> I just want to thank all of you for a stimulating, interesting and, in 
> the end, informational discussion. Now I know why COBOL uses V99 
> numbers!
> 
> Has there been any consideration of using a Numeric class that is fixed 
> point? Something that is more like 995/100 representation internally? 
> There is sense is storing money in pennies instead of decimal dollars, 
> but it makes things a little more messy.

There's always Rational and BigDecimal.

-- 
Jim Freeze