From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-04-01T08:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does mathn kill this method?

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com> wrote:
> Really stumped here.
>
> def sum_digits(n)
>    sum = 0
>    while n>0
>       sum += n % 10
>       n /= 10
>       end
>    sum
>  end
>
> STDOUT.sync=true
>
> puts sum_digits(12) #=> 3
>
> require 'mathn'
> puts sum_digits(12) # hangs

n /= 10 just keeps making n into a smaller and smaller rational. it
never reaches 0

martin