Programming With Ruby Episode 5, Numbers

In this episode I teach you about using numbers in Ruby. Expressions, types of numbers, constants, and doing something a certain number of times.

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Original Post and Transcript: http://manwithcode.com/93/programming-with-ruby-episode-5-numbers/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• programming
• ruby
• numbers
• types
• constants

[parks709]

so does |x| tell the program to just count numbers if you put in 'puts x' on the second line?

[manwithcode]

@parks709 |x| says something like, "as we're counting to two, put the number we're on in the variable x". 2.times is what tells the program to start counting.

[Minecrafterz1000]

Hello Love your tuts they are helping me alot i was just wondering if rpg maker xp uses ruby? Because I am making a Pokemon game.

[manwithcode]

@Minecrafterz1000 Yes, it does use Ruby.

[bigbig1604]

Hey nice tutorials! thank you very much!

[manwithcode]

@bigbig1604 thanks for the nice complement! :)

[velvetcasuat]

AAAAAAAAAAAa hahahahah HEEEEELLLOOOOOWWWW everyone. Damn...

[louiseclements10]

I like that u include bits info. well done. weezy

[daredevilpwn]

Thanks for the tutorials man. I am very interested in learning ruby. It would be my first programming language.

[w2lf]

@manwithcode BTW thx for the video, they are very helpful

[w2lf]

Oh lol XD never mind just got it u.u

x = 99**99

x.times do

puts "Hi"

end

[w2lf]

Hmm i tried to make the 9999.... shorter. To multiply but cant understand why i cant multiply it, tried a few ways but still. Could anyone plz tell what am i doing wrong?

[w2lf]

XDDDDDD guys try

999999999999999999999999999.ti­mes do

puts "Hello World!"

end