From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T04:25:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Symbolify (#169)

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Alex LeDonne
<aledonne.listmail@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:19 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:16 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Dana Merrick wrote:
>>>
>>>> Haha, I just did it and my solution just happened to be 42 characters.
>>>
>>>
>>> damn - i've usurped!
>>
>> Mine was 28 characters, with normal whitespace usage.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>
> I managed to golf one char out of my first solution; it's 28 with
> "normal whitespace usage", 24 without. The output is ugly and long,
> though.
>
>
> I also have a longer solution that produces relatively compact
> representations relatively quickly such that
>
> symbolify(999).length == 145
> symbolify(9999).length == 145
> symbolify(999999).length == 389
> symbolify(12345678901234567890).length == 1290
> symbolify(("9"*2100).to_i).length == 402035
>

After clearing a "duh" moment, I've improved these encoded lengths...
symbolify(999).length == 127
symbolify(9999).length == 127
symbolify(999999).length == 337
symbolify(12345678901234567890).length == 1112
symbolify(("9"*2100).to_i).length == 350265

-A