Mathematics with Python and Ruby/Numbers with Ruby

Ruby being weakly typed, it is only at the time of its first allocation that Ruby knows the type of a numeric variable. Ruby possesses 5 types of numeric objects:

1. Integers
2. Fractions (quotients of two integers)
3. Real numbers (really they are decimal numbers only)
4. Decimal numbers with many decimal places (Big_Num)
5. and complex numbers which are not really numbers because they cannot be compared

• Numbers
  • Integers
  • Fractions
  • Real numbers
  • Complex numbers
  • Quaternions and octonions