Alternative coding for decimal arithmetic

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Can’t you just do something like (1/ (trate.to_f)).to_s I expect you don’t need all the parantheses1

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Colin Law wrote:

Can't you just do something like (1/ (trate.to_f)).to_s I expect you don't need all the parantheses1

I cannot drop to floating point. It has to be integer arithmetic.

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

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

Thanks, that works much better.