From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-08-22T13:12:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20084] Floating-point ==

Hello all,

Forgive my ignorance, but given that we do,
after all, store numbers in binary, how can 
this code *possibly* print "yes" (as it does)?

    x = 1.0/3.0
    y = 3.0*x
    if y == 1.0
      puts "yes"
    else
      puts "no"
    end

Thanks,
Hal Fulton