From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T15:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?


"Tom Sawyer" <transami@transami.net> wrote in message
>
> puts "#{1210 / 100}" --> 12
>
> why isn't the answer 12.1?

Try:

puts "#{1210.0 / 100}"  # => 12.1
                    ^^
Without this  .0 , Ruby takes it as integer division...

> i was getting ticked at javascript for producing poor arithmetic results
but
> this is nuts!

Relax ;-)