From: guille lists <guilledist@...>
Date: 2008-10-28T01:50:29+09:00
Subject: float equality

Hi,

sorry if this is a very naive question (I'm new to ruby), but I
haven't found an explication yet. When comparing to floats in ruby I
came across this:

>> a = 0.1
=> 0.1
>> b = 1 - 0.9
=> 0.1
>> a == b
=> false
>> a > b
=> true
>> a < b
=> false
>> a <=> b
=> 1

I'm a bit lost here, shouldn't (0.1) and (1 - 0.9) be equals regarding
the == operator? I also found that for example 0.3 == (0.2 + 0.1)
returns false, etc.

guille

PD: I'm using ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]