From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T20:39:53+09:00
Subject: Re: same operation (sort of), different results

I meant in general. For portability and dealing with float math.
Lots of solutions exist of course. One of them is Ruby's  BigDecimal
On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> On 30.03.2007 08:10, John Joyce wrote:
>> Yep, you can do integer division but do it last for best results.
>> you can also throw a  .to_f  method onto everything for your  
>> division..
>> The only way around real division errors is to use large integers,  
>> keep track of decimal location in your own custom object for  
>> display purposes and thus push the division error way way down to  
>> a small, insignificant number.
>
> There is another way: BigDecimal.
>
> 	robert
>