From: Alan Forrester <af17g11@...>
Date: 2012-12-22T19:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: simple division: -9 / 5 = -2 what?


On 22 Dec 2012, at 08:45, sto.mar@web.de wrote:

> Am 22.12.2012 07:11, schrieb rubyinfo:
>> I believe ruby followed c in the convention of integer/integer => integer
>> so you get 9/5 => 2
> 
> No, 9 / 5 => 1 !
> 
> Integer division with quotient 1, remainder (modulus) 4.

What appears to happen is that Ruby does the division and rounds down to the nearest integer.

Alan