Am 11.07.2014 um 16:33 schrieb Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]>:

> 
> On 11 Jul 2014, at 16:30, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 11 Jul 2014, at 16:22, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> why not round it before comparing it ? looks like an easy enough problem to 
>>> fix . I would expect that to be equal.
>> 
>> because it wouldn’t be correct :)
> 
> But then why 4/2 = 2?

The same reason why

4/3 = 8/6

:) 

Norbert
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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