How Ruby Numbers Work - Example

Guide
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Basics:

  • Ruby has two categories of numbers - integers and floating-point (also called floats).
  • Integers are whole numbers that can be positive or negative but cannot be fractions.
  • Depending on their size, integers can have the class Fixnum or Bignum .
  • Floats are numbers with a decimal place.

Examples:

x = 5.5
x.class
# returns
Float

x = 5
x.class
# returns
Fixnum

x = 11122233344455566677
x.class
# returns
Bignum # basically, Bignum is a very large number
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