From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-06-08T08:24:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Complex numbers contradiction?

Andrew Duncan wrote:
> But (as I now learn as I delve further into canonical Ruby syntax) it is 
> a "feature" that 5/2 evaluates to 2 and not 2.5. So something of the 
> sort is happening here.

Many languages, including C, do integer division that way.