On Sep 11, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Nick Savage <nick.sav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any help would be appreciative and the way I learn I can not move on till I > know. > > puts "I will now count my chickens:'" > puts "Hens #{25 + 30 / 6}" > #how does that equal 30? > puts "Roosters #{100 - 25 * 3 % 4}" > #How does this equal 97 > > puts "Now I will count the eggs:" > > puts 3 + 2 + 1 - 5 + 4 % 2 - 1 / 4 + 6 > #How does this equal 7, is it because it is 6.5 and it rounds up.
Google "ruby operator precedence". Multiplication & division have higher precedence than addition & subtraction, is the answer to your immediate question. But you really should google and look at all the precedence categories. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottribe/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/4D7492A6-5DE8-4FE5-9680-ED11027B6B63%40elevated-dev.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.