From: Chris Moline Date: 2001-07-19T23:24:15+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18120] Re: An exercise in minimalism Here's a first attempt. It weighs in at 66 bytes. (n=$*[0].to_i).times{|i|s=((n-1)/2-i).abs puts " "*s+"#"*(n-2*s)} Chris Moline