From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T22:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: integers and floats

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain to me why Ruby treats integers and floating point
> numbers differently?
>
> irb(main):069:0> 12.equal? 12
> => true
>
> irb(main):071:0> 12.0.equal? 12.0
> => false


ri Object#equal?

try eg,

>> x=12.0
=> 12.0
>> x.equal? x
=> true

kind regards -botp