From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-10-08T08:07:50+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

Will wrote:
> Greetings all, I think this is generally more a programming question than a
> ruby explicit one, however, I am wondering why this code yields 23,
> 0.999999999999979 instead of 23, 1.
> 

A common question. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point.

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