From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-04-26T03:20:40+09:00
Subject: Re: biggest number

Javier Esteve wrote:
> I'm learning ruby, and I want to know if it is any way to know the
> biggest number to be represented with a specific type of number (Fixnum,
> Bignum, Float).
> 
>  Thank you.

irb(main):005:0> (2**30).class
=> Bignum
irb(main):006:0> (2**30-1).class
=> Fixnum

irb(main):009:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"

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