From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T04:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: 5.000...007.to_s => "5"

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:59:54AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:48:18 +0900,
> Gavin Kistner wrote in [ruby-talk:97891]:
> > (The issue is not the lack of float precision...that's gotta give out 
> > at some point. The issue is the "5" vs. "5.0" discrepancy.)
> 
> Seems the issue about the boundary between "e" and "f".

Still, default fmt in flo_to_s() is iniatialized to 'g' (which 
cuts trailing decimal points).

Regards,
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