From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T06:10:41+09:00
Subject: Re: im new... so can i have some help

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Kindler <gizabo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> im new to ruby...... and i need some help!
> im trying to make  a quick app that takes an array of #'s
> puts them into a specific order ( i thik ill use the method "list" for
> that?"
> and gets the mean, median and mode of the array of numbers?
> how would i get what the user enters and puts it in
> this is what i got so far
>
>
>
> array = {}
> num = gets.to_i
> while num != 000
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> *please note the "while num != 000" is for when the user enters 000, the
> program knows when to stop adding numbers to the array, and to get the
> mean median and mode
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> than u
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Is this a homework assignment?  while num != 000 is not going to do what you
expect.  It will catch 0, 00, 000, 0000, 00000... as to_i converts those to
0.

also you would want to write it as

while num != 000
  num = gets.to_i
  array << num
end


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