Ruby | BigDecimal class coerce value

BigDecimal#coerce() : coerce() is a BigDecimal class method which return the ceil value of the passed BigDecimal value.

Syntax: BigDecimal.coerce()

Parameter: numeric values (can be integer as well as BigDecimal value)

Return: An array with both BigDecimal and numeric value represented in the form of BigDecimal objects.

Code #1 : Example for coerce() method

# Ruby code for coerce() method

# loading BigDecimal
require 'bigdecimal'

# declaring BigDecimal
a = 42.1**13

# declaring BigDecimal
b = -BigDecimal("10")

# declaring BigDecimal
c = -(22 ** 7.1) * 10

puts "coerce example 1 : #{a.coerce(b)}\n\n"

puts "coerce example 2 : #{b.coerce(c)}\n\n"

Output :

coerce example 1 : [-10.0, 1.3051704902006439e+21]

coerce example 2 : [#, #]

Code #2 : Example for coerce() method

# Ruby code for coerce() method

# loading BigDecimal
require 'bigdecimal'

# declaring BigDecimal
a = 12**12 - 27

# declaring BigDecimal
b = BigDecimal('10')-(22 ** 7.1) ** 10

# declaring BigDecimal
c = BigDecimal('-3')

puts "coerce example 1 : #{a.coerce(b)}\n\n"

puts "coerce example 2 : #{b.coerce(c)}\n\n"

Output :

coerce example 1 : [-2.051211007305864e+95, 8916100448229.0]

coerce example 2 : [#, #]