From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-11-14T02:43:30+09:00
Subject: Float 1.2345 out of range

[pbrannan@zaphod uilib]$ irb
Rirb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
"1.6.7"
irb(main):002:0> Math.log(0); 1.2345
1.2345
irb(main):003:0> Math.log(0); 1.2345
(irb):3: warning: Float 1.2345 out of range
1.2345

[pbrannan@zaphod uilib]$ ruby-1.7 `which irb`
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
"1.7.3"
irb(main):002:0> Math.log(0); 1.2345
1.2345
irb(main):003:0> Math.log(0); 1.2345
1.2345
irb(main):004:0> Math.log(0); 1.2345
1.2345
irb(main):005:0> Math.log(0); 1.2345
1.2345

Any ideas why this is happening?

I found [ruby-talk:36449], where the author said he saw something
similar happen under 1.7.2 but not under 1.6.7.  There were no
responses, though.

Paul