From: Caleb Tennis Date: 2005-11-04T03:44:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Continous running thread > Sleep will round you to the nearest integer. > > Run sleep 1.4 and sleep 1.9 in irb and see what you get. It rounds its return value to the nearest integer, but at least here it sleeps for the specified time. try sleep 0.0, sleep 0.2, and sleep 1.0 and see the difference. Caleb