"Henrik Horneber" <ryco / gmx.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:415E787B.7050108 / gmx.net...
> Well yes, I was aware of that fact, that's why I was using BigDecimals in 
> the first place. I was _not_ aware of the fact, that
> - turning a float to a string
> - turning the string to a BigDecimal
> - turning the BigDecimal to a float
> generates such problems, just because strings and BigDecimals seemed a 
> 'wider' type to me. Now that you mention it, it is kind of obvious that 
> there still are these problems, because of different representations. 
> Strange how such perceptions of 'wider' or 'more precise' can fool you...

Well, the weakest link in the chain is the crucial one and in this case it's 
the float.  So as long as the values are converted into a float once 
somewhere in the process you can bet that == will fail at some point. :-)

Regards

    robert