I am looking to take a stab at this issue.  I noticed in JIRA, JScience was
mentioned as an alternative.  Would that mean including the jar or just
referencing the code for JScience.  I am in the process of getting the specs
to run on my mac.

Thanks
Chris



JIRA [email protected] wrote:
> 
> to_f near Float::MAX
> --------------------
> 
>                  Key: JRUBY-3331
>                  URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3331
>              Project: JRuby
>           Issue Type: Bug
>           Components: RubySpec
>     Affects Versions: JRuby 1.1.5
>          Environment: jruby --version
> jruby 1.1.5 (ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 114) (2009-01-02 rev 6586) [i386-java]
>  uname -a
> Linux ******** 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp #1 SMP Thu May 17 14:00:09 UTC 2007 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> cat /etc/SuSE-release 
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (i586)
> VERSION = 10
> PATCHLEVEL = 1
> 
> 
>             Reporter: Karl Brodowsky
>             Priority: Critical
>              Fix For: JRuby 1.2, JRuby 1.x+
> 
> 
> conversion to Floating Point does not work well near Float::MAX.
> 10.0**308 can be expressed.
> conversion of x=(Float::MAX).to_i()/2 works
> conversion of y>(Float::MAX).to_i()/2 does not work or at least not always
> where it should.
> Example:
> jruby -e "puts (10**308).to_f"
> NaN
> ruby -e "puts (10**308).to_f"
> 1.0e+308
> 
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