From: Vidar Hokstad <vidar.hokstad@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T22:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about digits

On Jan 28, 12:10 am, "Fer#" <fernando.mdelacu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why call them digits, if you can call them characters?
>
> If you have got arbitrary_number, you got arbitrary_number.to_s so:
[... snip]
> This above will do for base 10, and printf stuff may help with hex,
> oct at least.

Actually, Fixnum#to_s and Bignum#to_s takes optional arguments 
specifying base, so to handle hex you'd do arbitrary_number.to_s(16) 
etc.

Vidar