Class: Rational

Inherits:

Numeric

• Object
• Numeric
• Rational

Defined in:

lib/bigdecimal/util.rb

Instance Method Summary

• #to_d(precision) ⇒ Object

  call-seq: rat.to_d(precision) -> bigdecimal.

Instance Method Details

#to_d(precision) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

rat.to_d(precision)  -> bigdecimal

Returns the value as a BigDecimal.

The required precision parameter is used to determine the number of significant digits for the result.

require 'bigdecimal'
require 'bigdecimal/util'

Rational(22, 7).to_d(3)   # => 0.314e1

See also Kernel.BigDecimal.

# File 'lib/bigdecimal/util.rb', line 132

def to_d(precision)
  BigDecimal(self, precision)
end