Ruby Language Casting (type conversion) Floats and Integers
Example
1/2 #=> 0
Since we are dividing two integers, the result is an integer. To solve this problem, we need to cast at least one of those to Float:
1.0 / 2 #=> 0.5
1.to_f / 2 #=> 0.5
1 / Float(2) #=> 0.5
Alternatively, fdiv may be used to return the floating point result of division without explicitly casting either operand:
1.fdiv 2 # => 0.5
