From: Milan Maksimovic <maksa@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T15:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?

>> From: "Tom Sawyer" <transami@transami.net
>> 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!

 Hey, no reason for panic.

 class Fixnum
   def / ( rightSide )
     return self.to_f / rightSide
   end
 end

 puts "#{1210 / 100}" --> 12.1


Regards,
M.