From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T04:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't know how to multiply

On 6/22/07, Michael W. Ryder <_mwryder@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 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?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/bigdecimal/rdoc/index.html

There is also a page in the stdlib section of Pickaxe II