From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-08-11T10:46:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick Float question

On 8/10/07, Cliff Rowley <cliffrowley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hank Gong wrote:
> > This is because the 3.33333333333333 is not the exact value you got
> > from 10.0/3.0. Ruby store more information you can't not see.
> > So if  you want to compare the float, you can write it as
> > (10.0/3.0 - 3.3333333333).abs <= 0.0001
> >
> This is what I thought.  Thanks for clarifying that.  I need it
> primarily for unit testing, I'll try this technique and see how I go.

assert_in_delta  3.3333333333, 10.0/3.0, 0.0001

-greg