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Ruby program to demonstrate the arg() function

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create two variables and initialize them with some values. Then we will use the arg() function with created variables. The arg() function returns 0 if the variable contains a positive value otherwise it returns the value of "pi" which is 3.141592653589793.

Program/Source Code

The source code to demonstrate the arg() function is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to demonstrate 
# the arg() function

num1 = 10;
num2 = -10;

print num1.arg(),"\n";
print num2.arg(),"\n";

Output

0
3.141592653589793

Explanation

In the above program, we created two variables num1, num2 and initialized 10, -10 respectively. Then we used the arg() function with both variables to print the result. The arg() function returns 0, if value of variable is positive otherwise it returns value 3.141592653589793.

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