From: Satish Talim <satish.talim@...>
Date: 2009-09-25T10:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Noob issue

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Fred, (5/9) is integer division. The decimal part is truncated leaving you
with 0. Use (5.0/9) instead.
Satish

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Fred Ige <duelarm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I'm really new to Ruby
> as such it took me about an hour to register ^^'...
> That being said
>
> I am trying to figure out why this program I made keeps returning as "0"
>
> def f(x)
> return (5/9) * (x-32)
> end
> x=1001
> print(f(x))
>
> Not complicated at all
> I'm just intending for the x value 1001 to plug its self into the
> temperature equation and print that value
>
> Thanks for reading
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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