On Jan 20, 8:33 am, John Maclean <j... / jayeola.org> wrote:
> Sheesh! All is working now and I can move along ;-) ty! This is all that I wanted to do:-
...
>       p "this is your number: #{number} and this is it's square#{number*number}"

FYI, the word "it's" is only used for the contraction of "it is"; the
possessive form is always simply "its". Understandable confusion,
since the possessive of most other nouns does use the apostrophe. (As
in "the dog's house" or "Phrogz's annoying English pedantry".)