The following snippet may yield some interesting, though often misleading insight.
# WARNING! This program generates random code # DO NOT to run this on a privileged account # $|++; close STDERR; close STDIN; my @Chars = ( ' ', a..z, A..Z, split '', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()-_=+\\|[{]};:\'",<.>/?'); my %Seen; my $Length = 1; search ('', $Length++) while 1; sub search { my ($search_str, $search_len) = @_; undef @_; if ($search_len) { for my $character (@Chars) { search( $search_str.$character, $search_len - 1 ) } } else { next if $search_str =~ /dump|exit/; my $value = eval $search_str; print "$value\t$search_str\n" if !$@ && $value > 0 && $value eq int $value; } } > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Savige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Shortest non-numeric Perl expression for each number > > > I'm interested to learn the shortest Perl expression for each > number -- but without using any numbers. Here's what I've come > up with so far. Improvements welcome. Oh, and please feel free > to extend the table below ($X[60] being especially juicy;-). > > BTW, $= is my favourite Perl built-in variable. What's yours? > > /-\ > > $X[0] = $%; > $X[1] = !$%; > $X[2] = $^F; > $X[3] = $^F+!$%; > $X[4] = $^F+$^F; > $X[5] = $^F+$^F+!$%; > $X[6] = $^F+$^F+$^F; > $X[6] = ($==~/./,$&); > $X[7] = $=>>$^F+!$%; > $X[8] = !$%.$%-$^F; > $X[9] = !$%.$%-!$%; > $X[10] = !$%.$%; > $X[11] = !$%.!$%; > $X[11] = !$%x$^F; > $X[12] = !$%.$^F; > $X[13] = !$%.$^F+!$%; > $X[14] = !$%.$^F+$^F; > $X[15] = $=>>$^F; > $X[16] = $^F.$%-$^F-$^F; > $X[17] = $^F.$%-$^F-!$%; > $X[18] = $^F.$%-$^F; > $X[19] = $^F.$%-!$%; > $X[20] = $^F.$%; > $X[21] = $^F.!$%; > $X[22] = $^F.$^F; > $X[23] = $^F.$^F+!$%; > $X[24] = $^F.$^F+$^F; > $X[25] = $^F.$^F+$^F+!$%; > $X[26] = $=/$^F-$^F-$^F; > $X[27] = $=/$^F-$^F-!$%; > $X[28] = $=/$^F-$^F; > $X[29] = $=/$^F-!$%; > $X[30] = $=/$^F; > > for my $i (0..$#X) { > print "$i $X[$i]\n"; > $i == $X[$i] or warn "oops!\n"; > } > > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com >