Half of the life of a person expressed as date in Ruby

Ruby
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Hi All

I’m doing a program in which you must enter a birth date and take the
date of the PC, and you have to determine the day between those two
dates which accounts for half of his life.

In conclusion, I see a way to do it, and wanted to know if there is any
function that divides dates eg (2/20/2012) / (5/15/1998) and I calculate
what date between these two dates or can be implemented in another way
than using a specific function of Ruby.

Thank you.

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Hi,

I’m assuming you already checked out the Date class from the standard
library I mentioned in the last thread.

Well, you don’t want to divide dates but rather the difference between
those dates and then add it do the earlier date (or subtract it from the
larger). You can directly translate this into Ruby code:

#------------------------------
require ‘date’

date_1, date_2 =
[‘2010-5-3’, ‘2011-12-16’].map {|str| Date.parse str}

middle = date_1 + (date_2 - date_1) / 2
puts middle
#------------------------------