From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-09-14T23:08:01+09:00
Subject: Re: how do deal with huge numbers and keep them accurate?

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Tomi Zzzz <tomi_z@nana.co.il> wrote:

> Hello all, I wrote the following code:
>
> require "bigdecimal"
> require "bigdecimal/math"
> include BigMath
> odd = gets.chomp.to_f


This gives you a float, NOT a bigdecimal.


>
> result = odd/3.0
> puts result.to_f


Try

odd = BigDecimal.new(gets.chomp)
puts odd/3   # or odd/3.0


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