Subj : Re: Reversing a number
To   : comp.programming
From : Willem
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 11:05 am

Gerry wrote:
) Not directly, but conceptually it is all about manipulating the base-10 
) string representation.  What are easily comprehensible in these terms 
) turn into kludgy numeric operations instead.  When I take x % 10, I am 
) determining a value that encodes a digit in the string representation.  
) The right end of the string, as I look at the string representing the 
) number.

That may be true, but in the context of the statement that started this
whole discussion*, it is not relevant what the code is doing conceptually.

*) The statement was that the algorithm 'convert to string, reverse string,
    convert back to number' is more complex than the algorithm involving
   direct manipulation of mumbers.


SaSW, Willem
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