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coerce

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coerce(p1) public

Returns an array with both a numeric and a big represented as Bignum objects.

This is achieved by converting numeric to a Bignum.

A TypeError is raised if the numeric is not a Fixnum or Bignum type.

(0x3FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF+1).coerce(42)   #=> [42, 4611686018427387904]

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static VALUE
rb_int_coerce(VALUE x, VALUE y)
{
    if (RB_INTEGER_TYPE_P(y)) {
        return rb_assoc_new(y, x);
    }
    else {
        x = rb_Float(x);
        y = rb_Float(y);
        return rb_assoc_new(y, x);
    }
}

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