Assert_equal problem

One of my tests with assert_equal has the message:

<5.0e-006> expected but was
<5.0e-006>.

What seems to be this error?

On Feb 3, 9:35 am, Ranieri T. [email protected] wrote:

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Can you post some of the code around this test? Chances are you are
testing for equality with real numbers and it’s rare that they will
ever be exactly equal. A similar situation arises with testing time.
The time object is stored internally in milliseconds, but visually it
is displayed in seconds. This results in failed tests with:

<10:01 AM Sun Feb 3 2008> expected but was
<10:01 AM Sub Fep 3 2008>.

The solution is to use a delta time to be used as a margin of error.

time_delta = 100
assert_in_delta time1, time2, time_delta

I used time as an example, but should work for any real numbers

Ranieri T. wrote:

One of my tests with assert_equal has the message:
<5.0e-006> expected but was
<5.0e-006>.
What seems to be this error?

Read this and you’ll understand.
“What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point”
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

Clifford H…

Thanks for the help.