From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:13:47 -0800
Subject: [sup-talk] Util - Fixnum num_digits is wrong
In-Reply-To: <20071203105210.GO1974@durance.shot.pl>
References: <1196670157-sup-6857@silver>
	<20071203105210.GO1974@durance.shot.pl>
Message-ID: <1197151959-sup-1679@south>

Excerpts from Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)'s message of Mon Dec 03 02:52:10 -0800 2007:
> Math.log and Float#/ returning Floats means the above approach is
> prone to the IEEE 754 representation inaccuracy.
> 
> Wouldn?t the below make more sense?
> 
> class Fixnum
>   def num_digits base = 10
>     to_s(base).size
>   end
> end

Yes, but not as much as simply deleting the method. :)

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>