From: Simen Edvardsen <toalett@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T20:36:34+09:00
Subject: Re: limiting Ruby Numbers

What exactly are you trying to do? From the Fixnum documentation:

"A Fixnum holds Integer values that can be represented in a native
machine word (minus 1 bit). If any operation on a Fixnum exceeds this
range, the value is automatically converted to a Bignum.

Fixnum objects have immediate value. This means that when they are
assigned or passed as parameters, the actual object is passed, rather
than a reference to that object. Assignment does not alias Fixnum
objects. There is effectively only one Fixnum object instance for any
given integer value, so, for example, you cannot add a singleton
method to a Fixnum."

Is that the answer you are looking for?

On 6/10/06, Guest <ifxa3a@yahoo.com> wrote:
> is there any ways to limit ruby numbers up to certain bytes? all i've
> read is that ruby numbers are limited to host's free memory
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- Simen