Noob question re:returning nil

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From	Nathan McDorman <nmcdorman@gmail.com>
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Thank you guys so much I really appreciate the help! I've changed the 
program to a method that just calculates what I want it to return and 
holds it in a var placed at the end of the method.  Then I call puts 
outside of the method on the method.

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Noob question re:returning nil Nathan McDorman <nmcdorman@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 23:27 -0500
  Re: Noob question re:returning nil Vincent Manis <vmanis@telus.net> - 2011-04-14 00:08 -0500
  Noob question re:returning nil Nathan McDorman <nmcdorman@gmail.com> - 2011-04-14 00:55 -0500

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