From: DaVinci <bombadil@...>
Date: 2001-08-30T16:23:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20569] Re: Problem with float numbers

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:29:58PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> | 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.
 
 Any solution for this? I don't understand why it fails with locale. I
 suppose this is a bug in strtod, isn't this?

 				David