From: ThoML <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T16:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbolify (#169)

> Or even
> symbolify(9999).length == 37
> symbolify(999999).length == 48
> symbolify(12345678901234567890).length == 275
> symbolify
> (1234567899999999999999999999999999999999999901234567890).length ==640
> symbolify(("9"*2100).to_i).length == 26762

Well, well.

I tried the following:

    p (0..10000).to_a.inject(0) {|a, i|
        s = symbolify(i)
        x = eval(s)
        raise "Decode failed! #{i} != #{x} : #{s}" unless i == x
        a + s.size
    }

For my current solution, this prints: 556136