From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T10:22:37+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> ruby -e 'def x(n,m)z=n;(m-1).times{|x|z*=n};z;end
>> def f(n)d=2;r=[];while(d*d)<n do t=0;while((n%d)==0)do
>> n=(n/d).to_i;t+=1;end;while(t>0)do t-=1;r<<d;end;d+=(1+(d%2));end
>> (r<<n)if(n>1);r;end;p f((x(3,2).to_s+x(2,5).to_s).to_i).inject{
>> |x,y|x+y}.to_s.split(//).inject(1){|a,b|a*b.to_i}'
>
> Now, that's a lotta code to calculate 6*9. :-)

Hey, this is nothing.  They had a planet-sized computer working for
nearly 10 million years on that calculation.

Life ... don't talk to me about life ...


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