From: "James, Roshan (Cognizant)" <JRoshan@...>
Date: 2004-06-19T15:48:25+09:00
Subject: Re: "Litte Ruby" book

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He is just making an eample saying that if you represent a the number 5
with any string that has 5 characters then we can do ... Etc etc. In the
following examples he simply uses a string of the character 'n'. There
is no reason he could not have used 'hello', he is simply trying to make
an example for the hypothetical class called FunnyNumber.=20


//-----Original Message-----
//From: Carl Youngblood [mailto:carl.youngblood@gmail.com]=20
//Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:39 AM
//To: ruby-talk ML
//Subject: Re: "Litte Ruby" book
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//(commenting without having read the material quoted) Maybe he=20
//is referring to computability theory and the way Turing=20
//machines use strings of different lengths to represent=20
//numbers.  The contents of the string aren't important in this=20
//case, since usually there are only a few different possible=20
//symbols, but the length of them is.
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//On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:43:22 +0900, Photis <photis@oriste.com> wrote:
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//> > I'm here. I hope to restart at some point, but other=20
//projects keep=20
//> > getting in the way.
//>=20
//> I don't know if this is the right place, but reading this=20
//tread got me=20
//> to the "little ruby" book, so maybe you'll be patient with=20
//me. I got=20
//> stuck on page 9 of chapter 1, where it says:
//>=20
//> How can a String represent an Integer?    A String with n characters
//> represents the  Integer n.
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//> My confusion could come from the fact that English is not my mother=20
//> tongue, but if I replace n with 5 and read the sentence=20
//aloud, it says=20
//> "a string with 5 characters represents the integer 5". So=20
//the string=20
//> "hello", which has 5 characters, represents the integer 5?
//>=20
//> That doesn't make much sense to me. What am I missing?
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//> photis
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