Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby doesn't know how to multiply"
    on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:57:48 +0900, Lloyd Linklater <lloyd / 2live4.com> writes:

|I tried this in Delphi, smalltalk and oracle SQL and got the correct 
|result.

Interesting.  There are a few ways to get the "correct" result. 

  * fixed point number
  * base 10 floating numbers
  * comparison with epsilon

Does anyone know how these languages get the correct result?

							matz.