From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T17:38:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Exponents

On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Tony Dermont wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to calculate using exponential operator **. However, I get a
> crash with the following message
>
> wrong argument type Float (expected Fixnum)
>
> The values I am using are 0.713 ** 0.5555555  => THIS CRASHES
>
> But when I try this on a ruby command prompt, it works fine. Is there a
> way I can calculate using a float number as an exponent?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tony

Are you sure the error is due to that computation? It works perfectly for me, 
either in irb, passing it to ruby -e or putting it in a script.

Stefano