Issue #2483 has been updated by Shota Fukumori. Can't reproduce on OSX10.6.5 and Debian squeeze (amd64) with 1.8 trunk. [sorah / lemonade]:~/git/ruby/core18/builds/master% ruby -ve 'puts "1e-100".to_f' ruby 1.8.8dev (2010-11-24) [i386-darwin10.5.0] 1.0e-100 [sorah / cleveland]:~/git/ruby/core18/builds/master% ruby -ve 'puts "1e-100".to_f' ruby 1.8.8dev (2010-11-24) [x86_64-linux] 1.0e-100 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2483 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org