From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-05-27T07:56:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Float() work the same as Integer()?

Michael W. Ryder wrote:
> I can not see how you can say that 0.1 != 1/10.  I tried looking up the 
> standard but the paper I looked at, about implementing the standard in a 
> language, made no mention of converting floating point numbers to 
> rational numbers.

Ruby uses binary numbers, not decimal numbers. In binary, 1/10 cannot be 
represented exactly, just like 1/3 cannot be represented exactly in decimal.

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