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Hello,

I am lazy, so I avoided math as much as possible. In fact, I went to
some length to avoid dealing with the problem altogether, delegating
to ruby's Integer and even let ruby define my delegated functions :)


# Fixed Width Integer Class for Ruby Quiz #85
# (C) 2006 J=FCrgen Strobel <juergen / strobel.info>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it
# and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
# either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
# later version.

require "forwardable.rb"

# Base class for Integer classes with a fixed bit width
#
# Almost all methods are delegated to an encapsulated integer object.
# Metaprogramming is used to automate delegation & conversion.
#
class FixedWidthInt=20

  include Comparable
  extend Forwardable
  private_class_method :new
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  def self.def_fwi_delegator(accessor, method)  # taken from forward.rb
    module_eval(<<-EOS, "(__FWI_DELEGATION__)", 1)
      def #{method}(*args, &block)
        begin
          #puts "delegating #{method} and converting the result"
          self.class.new(#{accessor}.__send__(:#{method}, *args, &block), w=
idth)
        rescue Exception
          $@.delete_if{|s| /^\\(__FWI_DELEGATION__\\):/ =3D~ s} unless Forw=
ardable::debug
          Kernel::raise
        end
      end
    EOS
  end
  def method_missing(op, *args)                 # a method is missing?
    if @i.respond_to?(op)                       # our @i could handle it?
      #puts "defining new method #{op}"
      FixedWidthInt.def_fwi_delegator :@i, op   #   define it by delegation!
      self.send(op, *args)                      #   and try again
    else                                        # else
      super                                     #   NoMethodError
    end
  end
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  def initialize(i =3D 0, w =3D 8)
    w =3D w.to_i
    raise "Invalid width" unless w >=3D 1
    @width, @i =3D w, i.to_i & ((1<<w) - 1)
  end

  def coerce_to_width(nw)
    self.class.new(i, nw)
  end

  def inspect
    "#{self.i}(#{self.class.name[0,1]}#{width})"
  end

  attr_reader :i, :width
  def_delegators :@i, :[], :zero?
  def_delegators :i, :to_i, :to_s, :<=3D>, :times, :coerce, :divmod, :quo, =
:to_f

  # We might have to define or delegate more methods explicitly which
  # are not working correctly with #method_missing. Especially those
  # not returning a FixedWidthInt.
end

# A fixed width unsigned integer
class UnsignedFixedWidthInt < FixedWidthInt
  public_class_method :new
end

# A fixed width signed integer
class SignedFixedWidthInt < FixedWidthInt
  public_class_method :new

  # Interpret @i differently if the highest bit is set, everything
  # else works magically thanks to 2's complement arithmentic.
  def i
    if (@i >> (width-1)).zero?
      @i
    else
      @i - (1 << width)
    end
  end
end=20

############ snip

I also took the tests from the irb session und extended them:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Fixed Width Integer Class Unit Tests (Ruby Quiz #85)
# (C) 2006 J=FCrgen Strobel <juergen / strobel.info>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it
# and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
# either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
# later version.

require "fixed_width_int.rb"
require 'test/unit'

class FWITest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_unsigned
    assert_equal 255, (n =3D UnsignedFixedWidthInt.new(0xff, 8))
    assert_equal 1, (n +=3D 2)
    assert_equal 2, (n =3D n << 1)
    assert_equal 1, (n =3D n >> 1)
    assert_equal 254, (~n)
    assert_equal 13, (n +=3D 12)
    assert_equal 12, (n =3D n & 0x0E)
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    assert_kind_of FixedWidthInt, n
    assert_instance_of UnsignedFixedWidthInt, n
    assert_equal 144, (n * n)
    assert_equal 0, (n-n)
    assert_equal 3, (m =3D -9 + n)
    assert_kind_of Integer, m
    assert_kind_of Float, n.to_f
  end

  def test_signed
    assert_equal 1, (n =3D SignedFixedWidthInt.new(0x01, 8))
    assert_equal -128, (n =3D n << 7)
    assert_equal 127, (n -=3D 1)
    assert_equal 1, (n =3D n >> 6)
    assert_equal -1, (n -=3D 2)
    assert_equal 12, (n =3D n ^ 0xF3)
    assert_equal 13, (n =3D n | 0x01)
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    assert_kind_of FixedWidthInt, n
    assert_instance_of SignedFixedWidthInt, n
    assert_equal -169&0xff, (n * (-n))
    assert_equal 0, (n-n)
    assert_equal -1, (m =3D -14 + n)
    assert_kind_of Integer, m
    assert_kind_of Float, n.quo(17)
  end
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  def test_too_wide
    assert_equal 0, (n =3D UnsignedFixedWidthInt.new(0x0, 8))
    assert_equal 238, (n +=3D 0xFFEE)
  end
end

############### snip

~/ruby/% ruby test_fixed_width_int.rb
Loaded suite test_fixed_width_int
Started
=2E..
Finished in 0.023573 seconds.


-J=FCrgen

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 The box said it requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux

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