From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-07-19T11:18:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Integer encoding challenge

"David Balmain" <dbalmain.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

def encode_integer(num)
  "x"*num
end

Do I win something?

YS.