From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T10:28:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Base of Numbers

Hi,

At Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:25:30 +0900,
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> to_s works for any basis from 2 to 36 using these digits:
> 
> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 0, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h,
> i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z

Also String#to_i.

  $ grep -w 36 sample/test.rb 
  test_ok("Just".to_i(36) == 926381)
  test_ok("-another".to_i(36) == -23200231779)
  test_ok(1299022.to_s(36) == "ruby")
  test_ok(-1045307475.to_s(36) == "-hacker")
  test_ok("Just_another_Ruby_hacker".to_i(36) == 265419172580680477752431643787347)
  test_ok(-265419172580680477752431643787347.to_s(36) == "-justanotherrubyhacker")

-- 
Nobu Nakada