# Strange documentation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-documentation/67757>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-documentation/67757 "2006-09-06T16:46:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gareth\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Gareth\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gareth_A)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-documentation/67757/1 "2006-09-06T16:46:14Z")

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Has anyone noticed the huge amounts of redundancy at (for example)  
[class Integer - RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Integer.html) ?

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**Author:** ![Gareth\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Gareth\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gareth_A)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-documentation/67757/2 "2006-09-06T17:21:22Z")

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Gareth A. wrote:

> Has anyone noticed the huge amounts of redundancy at (for example)  
> [class Integer - RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Integer.html) ?

It looks like they are in alpha order, but some are also grouped. So  
the group of 6 methods that all return the int itself are all shown 6  
times, once for each of the methods, in the spot where that method would  
be.