Why is division in Ruby returning an integer instead of decimal value?

Question

For example:

9 / 5  #=> 1

but I expected 1.8. How can I get the correct decimal (non-integer) result? Why is it returning <

Answer 1

It’s doing integer division. You can make one of the numbers a Float by adding .0:

9.0 / 5  #=> 1.8
9 / 5.0  #=> 1.8