From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T15:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?

On Thursday 26 December 2002 11:27 pm, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> no i didn't realize that. i thought ruby would automatically change it to a
> float if need be, i.e. with divison, just as it changes to Bignum if need
> be.
>
> honestly i don't like it. now i have to go around adding .0's all over the
> place to make sure the math comes out right. and in some places i have to
> do things like multiple by 1.0 b/c certain values come from cgi script
> variables i have no control over.

note to self:
	.to_f not * 1.0