Re: beginner question, NSNumber, NSDecimalAsNumber

2009-11-09 Thread Jay Swartzfeger
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: There are some examples of how to do this here, including some really, really clever methods. Is this what you had in mind Alastair? http://gurmeetsingh.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/fast-bit-counting-routines/ --Graham

Re: beginner question, NSNumber, NSDecimalAsNumber

2009-11-09 Thread Jay Swartzfeger
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Alastair Houghton alast...@alastairs-place.net wrote: Anyway, there are lots of neat tricks of this nature. (All of this probably isn't for newbie C programmers, though it's perfectly possible that a newbie ObjC programmer might not be new to C or C++.) Where

beginner question, NSNumber, NSDecimalAsNumber

2009-11-08 Thread Jay Swartzfeger
Hi all, I'm an absolute beginner to Objective-C (and programming in general). I have lots of books on order, but I've been messing with Xcode/Cocoa/iPhone SDK with online resources while I wait. My question -- for my next project, I want to do a simple number - binary converter. Is this handled