We're using Float values anywhere in our Ruby scripts.
Have you gotten any troubles with Float?
Have you read the article "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic"?
Have you been scolded about issues of floating-point numbers from Ruby committers in redmine.ruby-lang.org ?
I'm afraid if you think it's difficult to use floating-point numbers.
These troubles, difficulties, and tragedies should be removed from Ruby and its communities.
I show you the way to solve these issues.
I'm a Ruby committer, maintaining the bigdecimal library. bio from Twitter
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