From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2011-12-02T01:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid question

ARGH, Verizon's overzealous spamfilter has been eating my replies outbound.  :-P

First, on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 15:14, Aaron D. Gifford
<astounding@gmail.com> wrote:

> If we're golfing, here's my amateur golf attempt:  *chuckle*
>
> s=0;'2011'.chars{|x|s+=x.to_i};s

And another four chars gone!  Well done!  Just goes to show, using
typical Ruby idioms doesn't always yield (no pun intended) the
shortest code, nor the fastest.

> (Are we allowing semicolons?)

Sure, why not.  I'll even allow carriage returns, counting them as one char.

Second, on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 15:42, Admin Tensor
<admin@tensor.heliohost.org> wrote:

> If the number of digits is less than five, how about this one for Ruby
> Golf ;-)
>
>    "2011".sum(48)%48

Cuuuuute.  If we restrict it to years we've had so far (CE), okay.

-Dave

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