From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T03:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting Bytes to a Negative Integer

On 2/15/07, Harris Reynolds <hreynolds2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> # try converting 7777777 when you already have the bytes
> z = ""
> [129, 237, 173, 241].each { |e| z << e }
> puts to_signed[z.unpack("N").first]

The bytes are wrong. The bytes for 7,777,777 in "N" format are [0,
118, 173, 241].

-austin
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