# Newbie question: 9/5=1?

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**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [20 March 2003 19:53 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/newbie-question-9-5-1/5254 "2003-03-20T19:53:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jacobs\_Dee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@Jacobs\_Dee](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jacobs_Dee)\
**Post date:** [20 March 2003 19:53 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/newbie-question-9-5-1/5254/1 "2003-03-20T19:53:20Z")

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Dan,

```
that ruby tutorial looks really great so far.
I picked up a few things just looking at it.

Can you put it in a downloadable zip?

Of course I'll be looking for the rest.

```

Thanks

Dee A. Jacobs

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>
> -----Original Message-----  
> From: Daniel Carrera [[mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu](mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu)]  
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:23 PM  
> To: [ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org](mailto:ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org)  
> Subject: Re: Newbie question: 9/5=1 ?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:18:59AM +0900, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> 
> > while learning ruby i wanted to program a simple fahrenheit to celsius  
> > converter. for that i need 9/5 to be 1,8 (and not 1). how do i do that  
> > in ruby?
> 
> You might be interested in this tutorial:  
> [http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/](http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/)
> 
> It’s a work in progress, but it’s quite useful already.
> 
> In particular, it covers problems such as the one you just described.
> 
> –  
> Daniel Carrera  
> Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.  
> University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137