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Created May 17, 2012 06:34
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Simple script to find the slope of a straight line
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slope_of_a_line.rb
#This is just a gist because I felt like writing something
#and don't have Ruby installed on the computer I'm using
puts "What is the x value for the first point?"
x1 = gets
puts "What is the y value for the first point?"
y1 = gets
puts "What is the x value for the second point?"
x2 = gets
puts "What is the y value for the second point?"
y2 = gets
y_diff = y1 - y2
x_diff = x1 - x2
slope = y_diff/x_diff
"The slope of the line is #{slope}."
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