thanks for clarification ... have found some further explanations/ solutions and will change my testing-logic.
On Jan 23, 5:55 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 Jan 2009, at 16:49, jzimmek wrote: > > > > > some of my tests failed when comparing two floats. > > > the comparison of: > > > 1.1035 == 1.0035 + 0.1 > > > evaluates to false - i do not really understand why. > > > must depend on the value range, because > > > 1.103 == 1.003 + 0.1 > > basically because 0.1 cannot be exactly represented in binary. > > assert_in_delta is good for this sort of stuff. > > Fred > > > > > evaluates to true. > > > would be great if anyone could help me getting this working and maybe > > giving an explanation why ruby do not handle the == operator for float > > as one would expect (coming from java). > > > tested on: > > > 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0] > > > regards > > jan zimmek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
