From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T08:01:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Puzzle Challenge

Wyatt Greene wrote:
> I was thinking of p *1..100
>
> I'm am truly amazed that this could be squeezed down even further to p
> *1..?d
>
> That leads me to wonder...is it possible to squeeze this program down
> into 7 characters?
>   

I tried another approach by relaxing your conditions a bit : the number
must all be printed out on the output but not one on each line.

p 2**975

works :-)

ie the "output" verifies :
!(1..100).any? { |v| output !~ /#{v}/ }

Unfortunately there's no x**y solution to this condition where x and y
use less that 4 characters.

Still stuck with 8 chars :-/ I can't think of any other string or
numeric operator which can generate lots of data to print with little
input right now.

Lionel