From: pen <pyeniemi@...>
Date: 2008-11-09T05:12:54+09:00
Subject: Re: what's easiest way to compare a Float & BigDecimal (i.e. like a 	equals mechanism)

On Nov 8, 8:26 am, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what's easiest way to compare a Float & BigDecimal (i.e. like a equals
> mechanism)?  It seems that "==" does NOT work as they are different
> types.  Is there a way to do a comparison without having to convert
> types?

Actually, there is none. Why don't you just let Ruby do the job and
multiply the bigdecimal with 1.0 when comparing? Also, as previously
noted, == operator with floats is not ... reliable.

br,

  pen