From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-08-30T12:29:58+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:20562] Re: Problem with float numbers HI, In message "[ruby-talk:20557] Re: Problem with float numbers" on 01/08/30, DaVinci writes: | Yes. But what about the other problem? | | 3.45 * 2.6 => 6.0 Probably strtod() returns 3.0 (actually 3,0 in this case) for "3.45" due to locale. matz.