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Asked: June 4, 20262026-06-04T09:25:25+00:00 2026-06-04T09:25:25+00:00

Erlang has a very nice syntax for expressing integers with an arbitrary base. It’s

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Erlang has a very nice syntax for expressing integers with an arbitrary base. It’s base#number.

Example:

> 2#101010.
42
> 16#2A.
42

Is there something similar in Ruby?
I already know of #to_i(base=10).

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    2026-06-04T09:25:26+00:00Added an answer on June 4, 2026 at 9:25 am

    There’s a nice
    list
    of possible literals, but it basically boils down to

    10 # base 10 by default
    0b1010 # base 2
    012 # base 8
    0xa # base 16
    
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