From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
Date: 2009-06-06T11:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: rounding errors?

Pete Hodgson <ruby-forum@thepete.net> writes:

> :~$ ruby -e "p ((0.29)*100).to_i"
> 28
>
> Really?! I know that digital storage of floating point numbers can lead
> to things like this, but this one seems a little extreme to me.

You may try a true Lisp instead of a Matzacred Lisp:

$ clisp -q -norc -x '(values (truncate (* 0.29 100)))'
29

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__Pascal Bourguignon__