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Bug #9858

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Ruby math error

Added by Antiokus314 (Navneet Garg) about 11 years ago. Updated about 11 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
2.1.1
Backport:
2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
[ruby-core:62706]

Description

While in IRB session or executing as a script, when performing the sum
21.1 + 7.6
the output is
28.700000000000003
not
28.7

Files

ruby_math.rb (40 Bytes) ruby_math.rb Math error Antiokus314 (Navneet Garg), 05/22/2014 09:00 PM
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 #1 [ruby-core:62707]

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 11 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

google "floating point error faq".

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