Getting two's complement representation of an Integer?
 

Is there a Ruby standard library method to get an Integer's two's
complement representation (on the given machine) of an Integer?

to_s(2) does not give the two's complement representation of a negative
integer.

Thanks in advance!

-Kedar

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Re: Getting two's complement representation of an Integer?
 

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Kedar Mhaswade
<kedar.mhaswade@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a Ruby standard library method to get an Integer's two's
> complement representation (on the given machine) of an Integer?

try combining fixnum#size and (s)printf/format using %b

happy new year and best regards -botp