# ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
require 'bigdecimal'

10000.times do
  # _sometimes_ raises TypeError: #<Class:0x000000277a3a38> can't be coerced into BigDecimal
  (BigDecimal.new('1001.10')**0.75).floor
  putc '.'
end