From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T04:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: 9/5=1 ?

Thomas Jollans wrote:
> while learning ruby i wanted to program a simple fahrenheit to celsius 
> converter. for that i need 9/5 to be 1,8 (and not 1). how do i do that 
> in ruby?

irb(main):001:0> require 'mathn'
true
irb(main):002:0> 1/2
1/2