Bug #13331
Updated by msatkiewicz (Maciej Satkiewicz) about 7 years ago
One would reasonably expect the equality 1.to_d * f == f.t_d to hold for every Float value f, i.e. multiplying by DigDecimal's unit can be viewed as an alternative way of casting Float into Decimal; or simply one could expect that BigDecimal#* should always invoke Float#to_d BigDecimal#to_d on it's argument. Yet for some Floats (e.g. 64.4) the results differ, as showed in the provided script. This can cause a bug in some application contexts. Originally I asked about that on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40472933/inconsistent-conversion-of-float-into-decimal-in-ruby/40473007 See the comprehensive answer by Stefan who points out that it is due to different precisions being used in Float#to_d BigDecimal#to_d and BigDecimal#*.