From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T02:02:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity (?!)

Christoph wrote:

> It should be noted that Float has many Infinities - as in
> 
> p     2.0 / 0 ==  2.0 / 0      # => true but
> p  (2.0 / 0).equal? (2.0 / 0)  # => false

This is true of all Floats:

1.0.equal? 1.0   # ==> false

IIRC, each Float instance is "boxed" inside an individually allocated
object.