From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-05-18T06:21:00+09:00
Subject: Re: greatest float smaller than 1.0?

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:10:41AM +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> I'd expect it to be platform-dependent. I also think this is one of those
> questions that are better off not asked :-) so hopefully you can find a
> different way to solve your problem.

f = (1.0 - Float::EPSILON)             # => 1.0
(1.0 - Float::EPSILON) == 1.0          # => false
"%.20f" % f                            # => "0.99999999999999977796"

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