From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-05-11T21:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9+ , floats, and decimal

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

>   (BigDecimal("1") / BigDecimal("3")).to_s
>  => "0.333333333333333333333333333333333333E0"

And extended example which might make the point a bit better:

((BigDecimal("1") / BigDecimal("3"))*BigDecimal("3")).to_s
 => "0.999999999999999999999999999999999999E0"
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