[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread James Carman (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428966 ] James Carman commented on MATH-155: --- So, you basically want to translate the String representation of a number in one base into the String representation for the

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread Chetan (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428968 ] Chetan commented on MATH-155: - I am not sure how this might work for arbitrary base where base may extend Base36(0-9 and A-Z gets used up). So atleast the convert(Base

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread James Carman (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428969 ] James Carman commented on MATH-155: --- What is Base in this API example? Is that some new class? Couldn't you represent the base using a simple integer? Also,

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread Chetan (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428971 ] Chetan commented on MATH-155: - Yes,String representaion should be ok . Something like String (String fromBase,String toBase,String number) For instance if I want to

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread James Carman (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428974 ] James Carman commented on MATH-155: --- How about this? String stringValue( long n, int base ); One might argue that this belongs in Commons Lang's StringUtils

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread James Carman (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428975 ] James Carman commented on MATH-155: --- Why not try this? new java.math.BigInteger( 2147483647, 10 ).toString( 36 ); Wouldn't that do what you want? Number Base

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread Chetan (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12428977 ] Chetan commented on MATH-155: - i guess that solves my problem. sorry for not doing my homework and needlessly raising a new feature request. Number Base Conversion

[jira] Commented: (MATH-155) Number Base Conversion

2006-08-18 Thread Remi Arntzen (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-155?page=comments#action_12429080 ] Remi Arntzen commented on MATH-155: --- One system of radix conversion that is not currently supported by the base Java library's and the Commons is radix conversion