As a follow up to this, adding a roundTo: before converting into a ScaledDecimal does not work.
(((91 - (2 * 35.9) - (0 / 2) * (113/121)) roundTo: 0.1) asScaledDecimal: 1) = 17.9s1 So how do you compare two ScaledDecimals that _should_ be the same? Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:07 AM Esteban Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was doing some basic calculations based on a formula, and I wanted > to convert the result to a scaled decimal in order to avoid having > these "loose" decimals in 10th position or something similar. > > So I did the following: > 82 - (2 * 35.9) - (0 / 2) * (113/121) asScaledDecimal: 1 -> 9.5s1 > > But When I do this in a test: > (82 - (2 * 35.9) - (0 / 2) * (113/121) asScaledDecimal: 1) = 9.5s1 > > It fails because the comparison returns false. > > I guess this is the proper behavior, but I'd expected that the > conversion from a Float to a scaled decimal would have eliminated the > extra precision from the formula. > > I can do a roundTo: 0.1 before converting, but I'd like to know what > would be the proper way of dealing with this. > > Thanks! > > Esteban A. Maringolo
