From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-01-23T11:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: why is rails/ruby automatically rounding to whole numbers.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Morgan Morgan <nagromh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morgan Morgan wrote:
>>       @wtf= 751 / 750
>>      returns 1 in the view
>>
>>       @wtf= 3 / 750
>>      returns 0 in the view
>>
>> i'm just trying to calculate percents.
>
> Apparently if you add a .0 it turns it into a precise number

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_stdtypes.html

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> 1.class
=> Fixnum
irb(main):002:0> 1.0.class
=> Float