From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-20T00:19:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18126] Re: An exercise in minimalism

Hi --

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Chris Moline wrote:

> 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)}
      ^

You can take out that space, in which case I declare a tie :-)
Here's my 65-byte version:

n=$*[0].to_f/2
(0-n..n).each{|x|puts" "*x.abs+"#"*(2*(n-x.abs))}


But I have to thank you for $* -- I'd been using ARGV.

My solution is pretty close to a transliteration of my
Perl solution, which was:

$n=.5*pop;print$"x abs,"#"x(2*($n-abs)),$/for(-$n..$n)


David

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