From: ".serialhex .." Date: 2010-12-03T09:14:10+09:00 Subject: Re: what's wrong with this picture? Brian, that's wonderful... that's a beautiful, elegant way to solve my problem! though i'm sure the other ways are better in different situations, this works beautifully (and your output of Math.sinc(0.5) pointed out that my 'newer and faster' organization of the code was apparently also goving me truncation errors and giving a value of 0.6366197723675814 WAYYYY off...) thanks everybody for the help! i'm sure i'll be back with more Q's... i'm still a noob but ruby is proving WAY easier than my forays into C/C++, VB (which is ridiculously verbose IMO) and the few other langs i've tried. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.