From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T03:50:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't know how to multiply

Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Michael W. Ryder <_mwryder@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not trying to denigrate the project but it looks like it is still in
>> alpha stage while the IBM project seems to have been releasing
>> production code for a while.  It also is an IEEE standard, which may or
>> may not mean anything.
> 
> Um... BigDecimal part of the ruby standard library.  What is 'alpha' 
> about it?
> 

My mistake.  When I entered bigdecimal in the search screen at Ruby 
Forge it pointed me to the long decimal package.  Searching for 
bigdecimal on ruby-lang.org came up with zero results.  Where do I find 
more information on bigdecimal as it isn't listed in the on-line version 
of Pickaxe?