From: dave.burt@...
Date: 2005-10-11T14:16:52+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 320: Extend Rational to play nice with floats

Joel wrote:
> >   Rational("1.2e-3")  #=> Rational(-3, 2500)
>
> A typo, right?

Yes. Well spotted.

irb> require 'rational_ext'
=> true
irb> Rational("1.2e-3")
=> Rational(3, 2500)

There's a working test script with a +3 in the expected result at
http://www.dave.burt.id.au/ruby/rational_ext_test.rb

Cheers,
Dave