Lexidecimal

(lexically-stortable string representations of BigDecimal)

Ideas are taken from here:

www.zanopha.com/docs/elen.ps

Paper was suggested by this guy:

groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/684b6aa3e4966e0b/f1a4a22ca667b569?lnk=gst&q=bigdecimal

However, I’m not sure “use as you wish” is legally binding, and I wanted a pure-Ruby version anyway. I also wanted to understand how it actually worked. The strings generated by this library DO NOT match the strings generated by the Java version linked to above. I doubt either can parse the other’s strings.