Hi,

At Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:48:18 +0900,
Gavin Kistner wrote in [ruby-talk:97891]:
> (The issue is not the lack of float precision...that's gotta give out 
> at some point. The issue is the "5" vs. "5.0" discrepancy.)

Seems the issue about the boundary between "e" and "f".


Index: numeric.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/numeric.c,v
retrieving revision 1.106
diff -u -2 -p -r1.106 numeric.c
--- numeric.c	14 Apr 2004 04:06:25 -0000	1.106
+++ numeric.c	21 Apr 2004 18:54:14 -0000
@@ -517,5 +517,5 @@ flo_to_s(flt)
 	else fmt = "%.16e";
     }    
-    else if ((d1 = modf(value, &d2)) == 0) {
+    else if (fabs(modf(avalue, &d2)) <= 1.0e-15) {
 	fmt = "%.1f";
     }


-- 
Nobu Nakada