Seems like the BigDecimal intialisation code has a bug:

This positive value is interpretted as I'd expect:

>> BigDecimal.new(".31").to_s
=> "0.31"

But this negative one isn't:

>> BigDecimal.new("-.31").to_s
=> "0.31"

Cheers,

Mark

Date: 2007-03-24 19:08
Sender: Benjamin Atkin

If you have a leading zero, it works:

irb(main):005:0> BigDecimal.new("-0.31").to_s
=> "-0.31E0"