From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-09-25T15:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Noob issue


Welcome to Ruby, Fred!

On 09/25/2009 03:17 AM, Fred Ige wrote:
> Satish Talim wrote:
>> Fred, (5/9) is integer division. The decimal part is truncated leaving 
>> you
>> with 0. Use (5.0/9) instead.
>> Satish
> 
> Thanks! It works now
> I cant believe such a small issue throw me off for so long.

Well, the good news is that you learned it early the hard way and won't 
forget it anytime soon.  That will help you avoid such errors in more 
complex code where they are more difficult to spot. :-)

Kind regards

	robert

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