From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T01:04:12+09:00
Subject: Re: same operation (sort of), different results

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:10:48PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> Yep, you can do integer division but do it last for best results.
> you can also throw a  .to_f  method onto everything for your division..
> The only way around real division errors is to use large integers,  
> keep track of decimal location in your own custom object for display  
> purposes and thus push the division error way way down to a small,  
> insignificant number.

Thanks.  I knew all this -- I just managed to completely forget
everything of use yesterday (the first day after a debilitating
migraine took me out of action for most of the day).  Apparently, I
became temporarily very stupid as an after-effect.  Unfortunately,
some of the evidence of this made it to the ruby-talk mailing list.

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