From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2005-11-04T04:20:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Continous running thread On Nov 3, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Gregory Brown wrote: > Sleep will round you to the nearest integer. That's just the return value. > Run sleep 1.4 and sleep 1.9 in irb and see what you get. You can sleep for fractional seconds. Try 0.1 and 0.9. You should be able to see the difference. James Edward Gray II