"David Balmain" <dbalmain.ml / gmail.com> writes: > Hey all, > > I need to come up with a way to encode an integer as a string so that > it will sort correctly lexicographically. This is pretty easy when you > have a fixed integer range but how do you do it with Ruby's BigNums? > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > Dave def encode_integer(num) "x"*num end Do I win something? YS.