From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-09-15T09:02:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Time#+ and usec


--- Michael Witrant <mike.pub@lepton.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The following results look buggy. I tried with Ruby 1.6.7 and
> 1.7.2.
> 
> (Time.at(0) + .1).usec # => 100000
> (Time.at(0) + .2).usec # => 200000
> (Time.at(0) + .3).usec # => 299999
> (Time.at(0) + .4).usec # => 400000

Looks to me like your standard "base 10 numbers can't necessarily be
represented exactly in a base 2 system" issue.

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