From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-27T11:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Bizarre Floating point errors in Ruby? Serious bug?

On Nov 26, 8:19 pm, space.ship.travel...@gmail.com wrote:
> I understand this is not a problem for just Ruby, but in this case the
> Ruby behaviour is not as obvious as Python. I am going to guess that
> it is IRB doing the formatting, so it may be something that can be
> changed in IRB.

Float#to_s is doing the formatting. If you want it like python, do it
like this:

class Float
  def to_s
    "%.12f" % self
  end
end

(-140.14 * 100)
# => -14013.999999999998

Regards,
Jordan