Dan, that ruby tutorial looks really great so far. I picked up a few things just looking at it. Can you put it in a downloadable zip? Of course I'll be looking for the rest. Thanks Dee A. Jacobs -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera / math.umd.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:23 PM To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: Newbie question: 9/5=1 ? On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:18:59AM +0900, 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? You might be interested in this tutorial: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/ It's a work in progress, but it's quite useful already. In particular, it covers problems such as the one you just described. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137