From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2006-09-18T22:55:38+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Code Golf Challenge : 1,000 Digits Of Pi On Sep 18, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Carl Drinkwater wrote: > Hi all, > > Code Golf's 12th challenge has just been added to the site. It > asks you to calculate the first 1,000 digits of Pi - Something I'm > sure most of you have thought about, but never done. You can see > the challenge at : > > http://codegolf.com/1000-digits-of-pi Darn it! They blocked my attempt to use open-uri. How's a guy suppose to cheat with these restrictions. Sheesh! James Edward Gray II require"open-uri";puts"3."+open("http://www.joyofpi.com/ pi.html").read.gsub(/\s/,"")[/\d{1000}/]