Ah, yes, yes, sending #asScaledDecimal to a Float is too late, the precision is already lost. It makes total sense now.
Thank you, Werner, for the explanation. > On 13 Jan 2020, at 16:13, werner kassens <wkass...@libello.com> wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > if you dont transform floats, that are not always exactly what they seem > to be, you get what you would expect: > 0.09560268s8 - 0.005s8 = 0.09060268s8. "true" > "of course" > a:=0.09560268 asScaledDecimal. > 0.09560268s8=a . "false" > "you could eg do this:" > b:=a roundTo: 0.00000001s8. > "then" > 0.09560268s8=b . "true" > > but if you do something like this generally in Float>>asScaledDecimal > you could loose some precision that could be unwanted in some other > circumstances (or perhaps not). > > werner > > On 1/13/20 2:13 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >> 0.09560268 asScaledDecimal - 0.005 asScaledDecimal = 0.09060268s8. "false" >
