From: Nuggety Nanna <lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-05T20:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Vectors & Surds in Ruby

Jan E. wrote in post #1087890:
> Hi,
>
> I think you'll have to be more specific about both questions.
>
> What exactly do you not understand regarding the Vector class? The
> documentation looks pretty good to me:
> http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/matrix/rdoc/Vector.html
>
> What do you mean by "expressing surds"? Are you talking about an exact
> represantation of n-th roots as opposed to floating point
> approximations? I'm sure there's a library for that. Or simply write
> your own class: Root[2, 2]

Thanks, for the reply. With the Vector class, I am unsure how to set the 
vector a value, when I try it in irb i am given the error "NameError: 
uninitialized constant Vector". Also with the expressing surds, I want 
to take a float value and then express in in it's exact value eg 1.73 as 
√3.

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