hello,
Can anyone tell me how to get a return class as Integer in ruby?
and to use Integer.new method with parameter as a number…
On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Atheeq P. wrote:
hello,
Can anyone tell me how to get a return class as Integer in ruby?
and to use Integer.new method with parameter as a number.
Integer is an abstract class is Ruby. You want a Fixnum
(32 bit integers) or a Bignum (arbitrarily large integers).
Fixnum and Bignum are subclasses of Integer. Just use regular
decimal notation to ‘generate’ fixnums and bignums instances.
42.class
=> Fixnum4200000000.class
=> Bignum
Gary W.
On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Rob B. wrote:
No, but they’re close enough. There’s a few bits used to identify some immediate values in the MRI implementation. On a 64-bit platform, a Fixnum will be used up to (1 << 62 - 1). The difference tends to matter only when you’re trying to do true 32-bit (or 64-bit) things like cryptographic algorithms where bit shifts or bit rotations are defined on an exact word size.
Yep. Thanks for expanding on my post. I just didn’t feel like all those
details were going to be helpful in the context of the original
question.
Gary W.
On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:05 PM, lalawawa wrote:
decimal notation to ‘generate’ fixnums and bignums instances.
irb(main):009:0> (1 << 29).class
=> Fixnum
irb(main):010:0>This is on Ubuntu Linux.
No, but they’re close enough. There’s a few bits used to identify some
immediate values in the MRI implementation. On a 64-bit platform, a
Fixnum will be used up to (1 << 62 - 1). The difference tends to
matter only when you’re trying to do true 32-bit (or 64-bit) things
like cryptographic algorithms where bit shifts or bit rotations are
defined on an exact word size.
-Rob
Gary W. wrote:
Gary W.
I don’t think Fixnums are 32 bit.
irb(main):008:0> (1 << 30).class
=> Bignum
irb(main):009:0> (1 << 29).class
=> Fixnum
irb(main):010:0>
This is on Ubuntu Linux.