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 >>> >> >> -- >> Thierry Goubier >> CEA list >> Laboratoire des Fondations des Systèmes Temps Réel Embarqués >> 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex >> France >> Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95 >> >
