From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-06-20T01:22:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird Fixnum division

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I can't replicate your output.  It works correctly for me.
I am using Ruby 1.8.0, which version do you have?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:18:33AM +0900, Tore Haug-Warberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this group but have used Ruby for quite a while now (it's a 
> great language by the way). In one of my methods I intend to divide a 
> Fixnum by a second Fixnum. I'd expected a Fixnum result but get Float back. 
> Can anyone give me an idea of what's wrong? The code looks like this:
> 
> puts @m.class
> puts d.class
> puts @m
> puts d
>     @m /= d
> puts @m.class
> puts d.class
> puts @m
> puts d
> 
> and the output is:
> 
> Fixnum
> Fixnum
> 8
> 1
> Float
> Fixnum
> 8.0
> 1
> 
> Yours, Tore Haug-Warberg
> 

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