From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-06-23T01:08:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't know how to multiply

Michael W. Ryder wrote:
> I think we have a difference of understanding of what fixed point means. 
>  I look at fixed point numbers meaning something like 1057 means 10.57 
> in the real world.  I was thinking more of something that shifted the 
> floating point number to remove the fractions and later replaced the 
> decimal point in the correct position, which I do not consider to be 
> fixed point math.

Basically you are thinking of
 >> require "rational"
=> true
 >> Rational(1057,100).to_f
=> 10.57

Daniel