From: William Rutiser <wruyahoo05@...>
Date: 2010-02-16T22:53:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help

Gui Djos wrote:
> William Rutiser wrote:
>   
>> In Ruby, numbers without a decimal point are treated as integers. The
>> result of dividing an integer by an integer is an integer with any
>> remainder discarded. If either argument is a float, the result is a
>> float without rounding or truncation. The "Float()" method only converts
>> the result of its argument expression to float. Try dividing by 2.0
>> instead of 2.
>>
>> You should also look up the relative precedence of the ** and +
>> operator, and while you have the book open, check on how Ruby deals with
>> negative quotients of integers.
>>
>> -- Bill
>>     
>
>
>  Now that's a useful post. Rob's was nice too, and I appreciate it guys. 
> I'll have a look at all the info you gave me and try to see through this 
> one.
>   
Thank you. By the way I think I ment ** and / in the remark about 
precedence, not +. It was late at night.

Have fun with Ruby.

-- Bill