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Ordinals for All Numeric Types

This snippet will extend all numerical types with a method for returning the English ordinal, i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.

class Numeric
  def ordinal
    cardinal = self.to_i.abs
    if (10...20).include?(cardinal) then
      cardinal.to_s << 'th'
    else
      cardinal.to_s << %w{th st nd rd th th th th th th}[cardinal % 10]
    end
  end
end
 
[1, 22, 123, 10, -3.1415].collect { |i| i.ordinal }
=> ["1st", "22nd", "123rd", "10th", "3rd"]


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to ruby math numbers by jswizard on Aug 04, 2006 1 Comments
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