From: Pixel <pixel@...>
Date: 2001-08-30T19:45:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20574] Re: Problem with float numbers

DaVinci <bombadil@wanadoo.es> writes:

> 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?

setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C")