From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T02:15:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert bignum to numeric and formatting

Alle sabato 5 gennaio 2008, Damaris Fuentes ha scritto:
> Hi you all,
>
> I'm trying to format a Bignum such as 1012345556 into 1.012.345.556
> (separating the thousands).
> I've seen the extension of Numeric [1] can do that but, how can I
> convert my Bignum to a Numeric?
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Numeric.html

You don't need to convert a Bignum into a Numeric because it already is: 
Bignum is a subclass of Integer, which is a Subclass of Numeric. 

Stefano