instance method
Rational#-
(::BigDecimal) -> ::BigDecimal
(::Float) -> ::Float
(::Complex) -> ::Complex
(::Numeric) -> ::Rational
self - other → numeric
rational.c
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VALUE
rb_rational_minus(VALUE self, VALUE other)
{
if (RB_INTEGER_TYPE_P(other)) {
{
get_dat1(self);
return f_rational_new_no_reduce2(CLASS_OF(self),
rb_int_minus(dat->num, rb_int_mul(other, dat->den)),
dat->den);
}
}
else if (RB_FLOAT_TYPE_P(other)) {
return DBL2NUM(nurat_to_double(self) - RFLOAT_VALUE(other));
}
else if (RB_TYPE_P(other, T_RATIONAL)) {
{
get_dat2(self, other);
return f_addsub(self,
adat->num, adat->den,
bdat->num, bdat->den, '-');
}
}
else {
return rb_num_coerce_bin(self, other, '-');
}
}
Returns the difference of self and other:
Example
Rational(2, 3) - Rational(2, 3) #=> (0/1) Rational(900) - Rational(1) #=> (899/1) Rational(-2, 9) - Rational(-9, 2) #=> (77/18) Rational(9, 8) - 4 #=> (-23/8) Rational(20, 9) - 9.8 #=> -7.577777777777778