0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this right?

Re:0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this... by CurtHagenlocher on Thursday October 04, 2012 @11:20AM (#4612716)

I suspect COBOL got this "right"...

In C#, (0.3m - 0.2m) == (0.2m - 0.1m). The latest version of the C++ spec allows for user-defined literals, so you could do something similar there (with caveats). But as far as I know, there's no modern language in widespread use that has decimal literals which default to base-ten representations.

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Re:0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this... by rst on Thursday October 04, 2012 @11:52AM (#4612883)

Some SQL implementations seem to. In Postgres:

  test=# select (0.3 - 0.2) - 0.1;
   ?column? 
  ----------
        0.0
  (1 row)

(Ruby gives me -2.77555756156289e-17)

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