what is http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_bignum.html
or http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=bigfloat, no?Thanks for your reply Botp, but wouldn’t this still be
susceptible
to rounding error?could you site an example so that our ruby friends/hackers can also
help?Signed,
Holden Glovakind regards -botp
Actually funny you ask because I can’t seem to make the float
class provide
rounding errors. I have been searching on the web but can’t
seem to make Ruby
give me rounding errors. I was under the impressions that
floats where always
inaccurate, is this not the case in Ruby? The reason I ask is
because I am
working on a general Money class. Currently I am backing this
with a Fixnum
in cents, but would prefer to have some sort of decimal type
that doesn’t put
a limit on 2 cent places. Very interesting indeed…
ah, money matters (or rather cents matters ;-). I, too, am paranoid of cents
and to avoid them, I just do mult by 100 or 1000 (depends), then process,
then go back by dividing by 100 or 1000…
what is 100.00 divided by 3? In money/business matters, it could probably be
33.33 for each of the 3 and 0.01 for charity 
Of course, you can then make your own class for this… in Ruby, the limit is
the imagination 
I think many have done their own classes for this kind of problem… just
wait for some people’s reply…
Signed,
Holden Glova
kind regards -botp
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