On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Kaldrenon wrote: > My full script is now: > > p Time.now > require 'mathn' > red_prop_fract = 0 > for d in 2..10_000 do > for n in 1...d do > if n.to_f/d > 1.0/3 && n.to_f/d < 0.5 && n.gcd2(d) == 1 > red_prop_fract += 1 > end > end > end > > p red_prop_fract.length > p Time.now That's very close to what I did. However, the conditional clause of the if-statement can be improved a little: if 3 * n > d && 2 * n < d && n.gcd(d) == 1 Staying with integers is faster, and gcd is a little faster than gcd2. Regards, Morton