Float equality? (was: [BUG] Float NaN's)

radoslav hodnicak rh at 4096.sk
Wed Sep 15 09:16:45 UTC 2004


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Doug Way wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 11:22 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
> > ...
> > 	>This does not require the use of a Float.  In Smalltalk I'd use
> > either a
> > 	>Fraction or a ScaledDecimal.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no ScaledDecimal class in Squeak.
>
> Some good news for Richard:  ScaledDecimal was added to Squeak 3.7.
> (which is now being released)

Is that the version from ANSI compatibility package? If yes, it's buggy -
try for example to inspect '1.40s2' asNumber (you get 1.39s2)

rado




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