From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2006-07-19T10:57:59+09:00
Subject: Integer encoding challenge

Hey all,

I need to come up with a way to encode an integer as a string so that
it will sort correctly lexicographically. This is pretty easy when you
have a fixed integer range but how do you do it with Ruby's BigNums?
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Dave