Paul Duncan wrote: > * Jamis Buck (jgb3 / email.byu.edu) wrote: >>"I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal." > > > Shouldn't that be "until I get to 7"? > Depends on how you are understanding "until". :) Pseudocode: i = 0 until i == 8 puts "%o" % i i += 1 end puts "%d" % i It's probably time to change my sig, anyway. I've been getting too many raised eyebrows from it. :) It was meant humorously. -- Jamis Buck jgb3 / email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."