Newbie question

Ruby
1

Greetings all, I think this is generally more a programming question
than a
ruby explicit one, however, I am wondering why this code yields 23,
0.999999999999979 instead of 23, 1.

Any help would be great!

i = 0
while i <= 50
a = 37i / 50
c = a + 0.0
b = (37i/50.0 - c ) *50
if b < 1.5 && b > 0.5
puts i
puts b
end
i = i+1
end

thanks much
Will

2

Rounding errors in floating point arithmetic.

Farrel

3

Will wrote:

Greetings all, I think this is generally more a programming question than a
ruby explicit one, however, I am wondering why this code yields 23,
0.999999999999979 instead of 23, 1.

A common question. Check out
Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia.

4

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Will [email protected] wrote:

b = (37*i/50.0 - c ) *50
if b < 1.5 && b > 0.5
puts i
puts b
end
i = i+1
end

require ‘bigdecimal’

#put a bigdecimal in the numerator or denominator…
((BigDecimal(“37”) * 23 / 50 - 17) * 50).to_f
#=> 1.0

Todd