From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T16:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbolify (#169)


On 12 Jul 2008, at 08:40, ThoML wrote:

>> 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
>

419100 for me. I'm pretty sure I've got the odd extra set of  
parentheses I don't really need so it should be possible to shave it  
down a little.

Fred