James Byrne wrote: > > I cannot drop to floating point. It has to be integer arithmetic.
Use BigDecimal (part of the standard library). It does arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic without the problems of floats. I think the syntax would be something like (BigDecimal.new(1) / BigDecimal.new(trate)).to_s But check the docs to be sure. There's certainly no need to jump through the hoops you're going through right now. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
