From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-04-17T05:57:35+09:00
Subject: NaN Error

> ruby --version
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [sparc-solaris2.8]

> irb
>> Float::MAX
=> 1.79769313486232e+308
>> 1.0e+300
=> 1.0e300
>> 1.0e+301
=> NaN
>> 1.0e+308
=> NaN
>> 1.0e+309
=> NaN
>> 1.0e+700
=> 8.55180271847103e+116
>>


And on my Windows XP machine ...

> ruby --version
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-cygwin]

> irb
>> Float::MAX
=> 1.79769313486232e308
>> 1.0e+300
=> 1.0e300
>> 1.0e+301
=> 1.0e301
>> 1.0e+308
=> 1.0e308
>> 1.0e+309
=> Infinity
>>


Any idea why the Solaris machine is fairly messed up for large float values??

Blessings,
TwP