[plt-scheme] Fixnum Conversion

The packed-binary collection on PLaneT can convert between various binary
formats and byte strings. It's patterned after a similar capability in
Python.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> On Apr 11, Erich Rast wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm a bit confused about numbers. A fixnum can hold numbers that fit
> > into 31 or 63 bits depending on whether the machine is 32 bit or 64
> > bit, right?
> >
> > How do I convert a positive integer number in the range from
> > 0...4294967295 (inclusive) on any machine to a little-endian encoded 4-
> > element bytes string?
>
> You can use (integer->integer-bytes 4294967295 4 #f #f) -- with #f for
> the `signed?' flag, since otherwise it doesn't fit into 4 bytes.
>
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