why not round it before comparing it ? looks like an easy enough problem to
fix . I would expect that to be equal.


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> That’s why mathematics and programming are two different things…
>
>
> On 11 Jul 2014, at 16:08, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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