On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Michael Zedeler <mich...@zedeler.dk> wrote:
> I'm not saying that there isn't any alternative to the way other languages > implements floats, but Rats in particular seems to require a > nondeterministic algorithm in order to be of practical use. > Rats means never having to worry about inaccurate float representations. $ perl -E '$i+=0.1 for 0..1000; say for $i, $i cmp 100.1' # oops … 100.099999999999 -1 $ perl6 -e 'my $i; $i+=0.1 for 0..1000; .say for $i, $i cmp 100.1' 100.1 Same $ Float inaccuracy is one of the things I'm really looking forward to forgetting. :) Eirik
