From: Dale Martenson Date: 2005-11-01T12:17:07+09:00 Subject: Re: TumbleDRYer (#53) - my solution For readability, I left the binary encoding as strings rather than converting them to integers. This could easily be accomplished by prefixing the encoding with '0b' and using String::to_i(0) to do the conversion to an integer. This would be important if you wished to use this as a compression technique.