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Ruby program to find the fraction and exponent of a number

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will read an integer number from the user using gets.chomp.to_i. Then we will get the fraction and exponent of a given number using the Math.frexp() function.

Program/Source Code

The source code to find the fraction and exponent of a number is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to find the 
# fraction and exponent of a number

print "Enter Number: ";
num = gets.chomp.to_i;  

fraction, exponent = Math.frexp(num); 

print "Fraction: ",fraction,"\n";
print "Exponent: ",exponent;

Output

Enter Number: 456
Fraction: 0.890625
Exponent: 9

Explanation

In the above program, we read an integer number from the user using gets.chomp.to_i and found the fraction and exponent of the given number using Math.frexp() function and printed the result.

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