From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2005-10-01T18:31:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Truncating Floats

> Probably cause you can do it in one line:
>
> ('%.2f' % 0.255).to_f

That's rounding, not truncating.

For some purposes, there's BigDecimal, where x.yz is really two decimals
(and not an approximation as a flost takes)

And behold! BigDecimal#floor takes an argument, the number of digits you
want (had to look that up myself; learn something new every day :)

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