Subj : Re: Reversing a number
To   : comp.programming
From : Steve O'Hara-Smith
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 11:52 am

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:24:12 +0100
Gerry Quinn <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie> wrote:

> In article <4323ae19.7955343@news.individual.net>, alfps@start.no 
> says...
> > * deanfamily11:
> > > I need to write a function that takes an integer as a parameter and then 
> > > returns it reversed (i.e. input: 45678, returned: 87654).
> 
> Convert it to a string, reverse the string, convert it to a number.

	When I was learning programming one example was converting
an integer to a string - it was pointed out that it was very easy to
convert an integer to a string of digits in reverse order and fixing
the order was used to introduce recursion.

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