From: Vikas Sarin <vikassarin@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T14:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: I have some Ruby math questions that need answering

99.0/100 or 99/100.0 will also work! You would have to keep one floating
point to get a floating point result!

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Vikas Sarin
Senior Software Quality Engineer
QA Infotech
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Mueller [mailto:ralf.mueller@zmaw.de] 
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:51 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: I have some Ruby math questions that need answering

Älphä Blüë wrote:
> When handling percentage calculations:
>
> Simple 99/100..
>
> Will I always have to do 99.to_f/100.to_f in order to receive 0.99?  Or
> is there a simpler way of performing this task in ruby..
>
>   
or you use

require 'mathn'



and I bet, there is much stuff in the facets-pakage: 
http://facets.rubyforge.org/