From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T23:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Float.to_int not working ??

Look at the links below for some help understanding it.  It's more or
less a 2's compliment problem.  Basically, there are a lot of
seemingly simple, finite decimal numbers that can not be accurately
represented by the standard float.

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754