ex24.rb

puts "Let's practise everything"
puts "You\'d need to know \'both escapes with \\ that do \n newlines and \t tabs."

poem=<<MULTI_LINE_STRING
\TThe lovely world 
with logic so firmly planted 
cannot discern \n the needs of lovelynor comprehend passion from inuition
and requires an explanation.
\n\t\twhere there is none.

MULTI_LINE_STRING

puts "-------------------"
puts poem
puts "--------------------"

five=10-2+3-6
puts "This should be five: #{five}"

def secret_formula (started)
	jelly_beans=started *500
	jars=jelly_beans /1000
	crates=jars/100
	return jelly_beans, jars, crates
end

start_point=10000
beans, jars, crates=secret_formula(start_point)

puts "With a starting point of: #{start_point}"
puts "we'd have #{beans} beans, #{jars} jars and #{crates} crates"

start_point=start_point/10

puts "We can also do this this way:"
puts "We'd have %s beans, %s jars, and %s crates." %secret_formula(start_point)