From: ChrisH <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T04:15:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob devision question

jamiethehutt wrote:
...
> totalbarsize = 180
> timeelapsed = 10
> totaltime = 30
>
> percomplete = 0.0
> barlength = 0.0
>
> percomplete = timeelapsed / totaltime
> barlength =  totalbarsize*percomplete
>
> puts barlength

You need Floats all the way down.
The division of Fixnum values ( timeelapsed / totaltime)
produces a Fixnum  value, which is 0 as 0.333 gets truncated

put a .0 after all the non-Float values to force them to be Float