From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T19:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: float precision

2008/9/13 thomas peklak <thomas.peklak@gmail.com>:
> You are right, multiplying with 0.01 is even fast, see the benchmarks:
>
> require 'benchmark'
>        user     system      total        real
> SPf  :  5.590000   0.050000   5.640000 (  5.720373)
> *100 :  3.760000   0.040000   3.800000 (  3.829771)
> *.01 :  1.770000   0.010000   1.780000 (  1.811917)

It's even more efficient to calculate with the full precision and
round only on output. :-)

Cheers

robert


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