From: Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T15:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?

Tom Sawyer wrote:

>can someone explain this to me:
>
>	puts "#{1210 / 100}" --> 12
>
>why isn't the answer 12.1?
>
>i was getting ticked at javascript for producing poor arithmetic results but 
>this is nuts!
>

                puts (1210.00/100.00) => 12.1

You started with two integers so you got an integer result.