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Division and Truncation


# When you do integer division in Ruby, any fractional part in the result will be truncated.

puts 24 / 2 # no problem
puts 25 / 2 # uh-oh, truncation
puts 25.0 / 2 # using a float as at least one operand solves it
puts 25.0 / 2.0 # same when both operands are floats








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