From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2009-10-31T22:31:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Really small numbers in ruby coming as zero!?

Mahadev Ittina wrote:
> # This is where I am having my problem
>     K = ((M) / (b*(d**2)*fck)).to_f

K = M.to_f / (b*(d**2)*fck)

In your code, you're dividing an integer by an integer, so Ruby makes it 
an integer division. If you make either the numerator or denominator a 
float, you'll get a float result.

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