From: Drew Raines <aaraines+public@...>
Date: 2007-01-20T05:10:08+09:00
Subject: Negative Float conversion to Fixnum

I'm sure this has been hashed out somewhere on the list before, but
my searches have turned up fruitless.  I had a strange issue come up
while diagnosing a unit test failure.

Notice the first dialog compared with the rest of this IRB session.
What causes -3930.0 to be converted to a Fixnum as -3929 only after
it's been multiplied by 100 or 100.0?  Even weirder is that it seems
to only be *this* number.  Can I workaround this?

  >> (-39.30 * 100).to_i
  => -3929
  >> (-39.30 * 100.0).to_i
  => -3929
  >> -3930.0.to_i
  => -3930
  >> (-39.31 * 100).to_i
  => -3931
  >> (-9999.99 * 100).to_i
  => -999999
  $ ruby -v
  ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-04 patchlevel 2) [i686-linux]

Thanks.

-Drew