From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T06:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby rounding?

On Apr 11, 2:25 pm, james.d.mast...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 11, 11:17 am, "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschm...@gmail.com> wrote
>
> You could always create your own :).  Here is a something that I put
> together.  There may be a better method.  The weird thing in the code
> with comparing the remainder to 1e-9 is to deal with floating point
> precision issues.  This may or may not be appropriate... I'm not a
> rounding expert but it's worked in applications that I developed.

I could be wrong, but I think this is what the constant Float::EPSILON
is for.  Where I'm sitting it's 2.22044604925031e-16.

Chris