From: Dale Martenson <devlists-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T00:50:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Codegolf - Pascals Triangle


On Friday, August 11, 2006, at 11:16 PM, Daniel Martin wrote:
>Michael Ulm <michael.ulm@isis-papyrus.com> writes:
>
>> My take on the latest problem from http://www.codegolf.com
>>
>> a=[]
>> 34.times{k=0;puts (a.map!{|i|k+k=i}<<1).join(" ")}
>>
>>
>> 56 bytes.
>
>I think this may be very close to minimal - no approaches I tried got
>this small.  Note that you can slightly improve readability (but with
>no change in character count) with:
>
>a=[]
>34.times{k=0;a.map!{|i|k+k=i}<<1;puts a.join(" ")}
>
>Then there's removing the parentheses around the argument to join, but
>that generates a warning that probably means you fail their test.
>



How about:

a=[]
34.times{k=0;puts (a.map!{|i|k+k=i}<<1)*' '}

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