From @Grimy

How to reproduce

perl6 -e 'my ($a, $b) = (0.777777777777777777777,
0.7777777777777777777771); say $a <=> $b, " ", Num($a) <=> Num($b)'

Expected behavior

Prints `Less Less`, or `Less Same`, depending on how rounding is done.

Actual behavior

Prints `Less More`. This seems inconsistent​: $a is strictly smaller
than $b, yet Num($a) is strictly larger than Num($b).

Version information

This is Rakudo version 2017.09 built on MoarVM version 2017.09.1
implementing Perl 6.c.

This may be related to https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132313

From @zoffixznet

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07​:34​:04 -0700, victor.adam@​derpymail.org wrote​:

How to reproduce
----------------

perl6 -e 'my ($a, $b) = (0.777777777777777777777,
0.7777777777777777777771); say $a <=> $b, " ", Num($a) <=> Num($b)'

Expected behavior
-----------------

Prints `Less Less`, or `Less Same`, depending on how rounding is done.

Actual behavior
---------------

Prints `Less More`. This seems inconsistent​: $a is strictly smaller
than $b, yet Num($a) is strictly larger than Num($b).

Version information
-------------------

This is Rakudo version 2017.09 built on MoarVM version 2017.09.1
implementing Perl 6.c.

This may be related to https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132313

This appears to be not a bug but simply the goodness of floating point math. I get the same result in C​:

  #include <stdio.h>
  int main(void) {
  puts( 777777777777777777777.0L/1000000000000000000000.0L
  > 7777777777777777777771.0L/10000000000000000000000.0L
  ? "More" : "Less or Same");
  return 0;
  }

  // OUTPUT​: More

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @jkeenan

Should the last word in the Subject be 'monotonic' rather than 'monotonous'?

--
James E Keenan (jkeenan@​cpan.org)

From @zoffixznet

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07​:34​:04 -0700, victor.adam@​derpymail.org wrote​:

How to reproduce
----------------

perl6 -e 'my ($a, $b) = (0.777777777777777777777,
0.7777777777777777777771); say $a <=> $b, " ", Num($a) <=> Num($b)'

Expected behavior
-----------------

Prints `Less Less`, or `Less Same`, depending on how rounding is done.

Actual behavior
---------------

Prints `Less More`. This seems inconsistent​: $a is strictly smaller
than $b, yet Num($a) is strictly larger than Num($b).

Version information
-------------------

This is Rakudo version 2017.09 built on MoarVM version 2017.09.1
implementing Perl 6.c.

This may be related to https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132313

Thank you for the report. This is now fixed (specifically, the Num version now gives "Same" as
there's not enough precision available to represent those Rats as different numbers)

Fix​: rakudo/rakudo@a760ac3cfc6426d9bd2fb00db
  MoarVM/MoarVM@b735866ddee9bd719440e5c82
Test​: Raku/roast@db0c58b5f763b085e

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17​:44​:40 -0700, cpan@​zoffix.com wrote​:

This appears to be not a bug but simply the goodness of floating point
math. I get the same result in C​:

You're wrong, 2017-Zoffix. The result you got in C is because you incorrectly used doubles to do the division.

@zoffixznet - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'