Usually comparing against floats is not as deterministic as you would
expect. And in other dialects you use #equals: instead of #=

But in Pharo there is no #equals: and instead there is a #closeTo:,
but #closeTo: has an arbitrary decimal precision, more than enough for
commong arithmetic.

Regards!

Esteban A. Maringolo


2014-07-11 10:59 GMT-03:00 Goubier Thierry <[email protected]>:
> :)
>
> in Smalltalk, the division of two integers is a fraction, not a float.
>
> i.e. 1/5 is 1/5.
>
> Thierry
>
> Le 11/07/2014 15:53, Natalia Tymchuk a écrit :
>>
>> Hello.
>>   I found interesting thing:
>> Why it is like this?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Natalia
>>
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