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Think Ruby has a floating-point bug? Think again.

by Giménez Silva Germán Alberto —

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/07/08/why-rubys-issue-tracker-still-links-to-a-1991-paper-about-floating-point-numbers/

Learn why decimal numbers behave this way, why the Ruby issue tracker links to a classic 1991 paper, and how to choose between Float, BigDecimal, and Rational.

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