From: Erik Terpstra <erik@...>
Date: 2005-05-31T18:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird problem.

Ryan Davis wrote:
> Same reason in pretty much every other language. Floating point 
> arithmetic is imprecise.
> 
> p part.height - 58.2   #-> -1.4210854715202e-14
> 
> If you look in test/unit/assertions.rb you'll find assert_in_delta (f1,
> f2, d) for exactly this reason.

Thanks a lot, I should have known this.

Cheers,

Erik.