From: Wyatt Greene <greenewm@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T09:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Puzzle Challenge

On Jan 30, 6:01 pm, Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscript...@bouton.name>
wrote:
> 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

Wow, that's pretty creative, though!