Why aren't they? What do you mean by this out of interest? Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Learn rails: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ On 11/04/2009, at 6:45 PM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter / googlemail.com> wrote: > Seems reasonable at first sight but the absence might have a reason. > For example, by making the conversion to String explicit it is more > obvious that float and BigDecimal are not really compatible.