From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T06:24:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Rounding error, (100.0 * 9.95).to_i == 994

On Friday 29 October 2004 04:11 pm, Aredridel wrote:
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| BigDecimal works by default on my ruby 1.8.2pre2 on PLD.

Hmm.. I'm running debian. Perhaps it is a separate package. I'll see.

| Yes, the class is technically immutable. I see no reason for this to
| be the case, so I'd love to dive in and ~fix the C code.

That's Matz' call. Interestingly we are talking a little about GMP on core and 
have learned the the Ruby bindings to GMP show large improvements in speed 
when operations are in place.

T.