From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-04-14T17:27:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Fixnum#to_d exist?

>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'bigdecimal'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'bigdecimal/util'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> 25.to_d
=> #<BigDecimal:1068060,'0.25E2',9(36)>

I'm running Ruby 1.9.3 on Windows XP. According to the docs[1], #to_d
is defined for BigDecimal, Float, Rational, String, and Integer (which
is a superclass of Fixnum and Bignum).

[1] http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/bigdecimal/rdoc/index.html

-- Matma Rex