From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T16:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Rounding error, (100.0 * 9.95).to_i == 994

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

> No doubt, there are some difficulties, but it certainly seems completely 
> doable. And #6 sounds about right!  Leave it to human beings to go on and on 
> bitching and dealing with rounding issues and what not, rather then taking 
> stock and fixing the problem. 

If you volunteer to pay for it, great things will happen.

I sympathize with this "let's just move forward" attitude, but it ignores
the real world to a large extent. I hear undergraduates talk this way all
the time. Are you an undergrad?

Hal