From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T20:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Unexpected BigDecimal rounding issue

2009/5/6 Samuel Lown <me@samlown.com>:
>
> Rick Denatale wrote:
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Samuel Lown <me@samlown.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone offer an explanation?
>>
>> BigDecimal is still a kind of float, albeit a decimal float rather
>> than a binary float.
>>
>
> Many thanks Nobuyoshi and Rick, that makes complete sense now.
>
> I guess the safest rule of thumb is if you're doing comparisons for
> humans, use humanized numbers (i.e. integers :-)

Or define a maximum error, i.e. do not rely on identical values but
rather the difference of the quotient.

Kind regards

robert

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