From: Michael W. Ryder on
Justin Collins wrote:
> Justin Collins wrote:
>> Matt wrote:
>>> On Jan 9, 8:32 pm, Matt <mgregor...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The standard library docs don't make sense to me a lot of the time.
>>>> How do I use the gcd2 method in class Integer (or is it in file
>>>> mathn.rb . . . no idea)?
>>>>
>>> Here's a link to what I'm looking at:
>>> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/mathn/rdoc/classes/Integer.html#M000926
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Both, sort of.
>>
>> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-linux]
>>
>> irb(main):001:0> require 'mathn'
>> => true
>> irb(main):002:0> 12.gcd(4)
>> => 4
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>
> Sorry, that should be gcd2.
>
> -Justin
>
For your information gcd works with 1.9.1 but gcd2 does not. Not sure
what the difference between gcd and gcd2 are and why gcd2 was dropped
from mathn in 1.9.1.