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Output 9876543210 without using numbers

Caché, Contest, ObjectScript

Hi, Community!

Last weekend we held the Final of InterSystems Contest on InterSystems Caché and DeepSee as a part of IT Planet Student Championship in Sochi. BTW, this year we had about 2 000 participants in InterSystems Contest.

One of the tasks for the finals was to solve the following  with Caché ObjectScript and use the minimum code. 

Problem description

Write a method that would return the string 9876543210, however cls code should not contain numbers 0-9.

The goal is to write the shortest method.

Here's a method signature (it can't be modified):

ClassMethod main() As %String
And call sample: 
USER>write ##class(ITPlanet.Task2).main()
9876543210

Also, here's the code to  check your result's length:

ClassMethod length(class = {$classname()}, method = "main") As %Integer
{
    #dim methodObj As %Dictionary.MethodDefinition
    set methodObj = ##class(%Dictionary.MethodDefinition).IDKEYOpen(class, method)
    quit methodObj.Implementation.Size
}

The best result was 25.

What's yours? ;)

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Eduard Lebedyuk's picture
Post by Eduard Lebedyuk 6 June 2017

Answers

Dmitry Maslennikov's picture
Answer by Dmitry Maslennikov 6 June 2017

It is not possible to past my result here, it will not work after that. But my result is 22.

Attached source with this method

contest.xml.zip ​

in expression mode it become 19

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Vitaliy Serdtsev's picture
Answer by Vitaliy Serdtsev 6 June 2017

My result is 21.

It is similar to the variant of Alexander, but only _+"".

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Alexander Koblov's picture
Comment by Alexander Koblov 6 June 2017

So the question boils down to "How to represent 0 using two symbols"

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Vitaliy Serdtsev's picture
Comment by Vitaliy Serdtsev 6 June 2017

Rhetorical question - for what?
If for fun, then this is possible.
But I will tell the solution here later.

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Vitaliy Serdtsev's picture
Comment by Vitaliy Serdtsev 7 June 2017

Ok, exclusively for fun.

I made some improvements and now my score is 9, but if you try very hard, even - 0!
Who less ? ;)

Here is the code:

Class ITPlanet.Task2 [ Abstract ]
{

Parameter p = {$zwbunpack("㤸㜶㔴㌲㄰")};

ClassMethod main() As %String
{
 q ..#p
}

}

Class ITPlanet.Test [ Abstract ]
{

ClassMethod length(
  class = {$classname()},
  method = "main") As %Integer [ CodeMode = expression ]
{
##class(%Dictionary.MethodDefinition).IDKEYOpen(class, method).Implementation.Size
}

ClassMethod test(makeDeploy = {$$$NO})
{
  ;do ##class(ITPlanet.Test).test()

  set classname="ITPlanet.Task2"
  set check=9876543210
  do:makeDeploy $system.OBJ.MakeClassDeployed(classname)
  set result=$classmethod(classname,"main")
  write !,result,!,check,
        !,"correct: ",$select(result=check:"yes",1:"no"),
        !,"length: ",..length(classname)
}

}
USER>do ##class(ITPlanet.Test).test()
 
9876543210
9876543210
correct: yes
length: 9
USER>do ##class(ITPlanet.Test).test(1)
 
9876543210
9876543210
correct: yes
length: 0
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Alexander Koblov's picture
Comment by Alexander Koblov 6 June 2017

Not always, If $T was set to 1 before, then it is not reseted on entering the method Main()

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Adam Skurek's picture
Answer by Adam Skurek 6 June 2017
Class ITPlanet.Task2 [ Abstract ]
{
 
ClassMethod Main() As %String
{
q $tr($h,",")
}
 

}

 

*You may need to set your date and time settings to 2111-05-30 12:00:10  ;)

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Timothy Leavitt's picture
Answer by Timothy Leavitt 6 June 2017

19 in non-expression mode:

Set ^oddDEF("ITPlanet.Task2","m","main",30,1)=" q $lg("""_$c(7,4)_"ê"_$c(22)_"°L"_$c(2)_""")"
Do $System.OBJ.Compile("ITPlanet.Task2")

The actual class code contains a few control characters, but not ASCII 0-9.

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Eduard Lebedyuk's picture
Comment by Eduard Lebedyuk 6 June 2017

I think you need  to call:

Do UpdClsDef^%occLibrary("ITPlanet.Task2")

before compile.

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Alexander Koblov's picture
Answer by Alexander Koblov 8 June 2017

I and [@Eduard Lebedyuk] came up with another solution. 28 symbols, though:

f p='""_+""-'"":-'"":"" w p
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Vitaliy Serdtsev's picture
Comment by Vitaliy Serdtsev 8 June 2017

Do not forget about the method signature:

ClassMethod main() As %String

Need not print the number, but return it.

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Alexey Maslov's picture
Answer by Alexey Maslov 8 June 2017

As large as 20 chars in expression mode.

/// ("鑔" = chǎ - small cymbals) * ("斚" = jiǎ - a small ancient stone cup for libations)
ClassMethod main() As %String [ CodeMode = expression ]
{
$a("鑔")_$q*$a("斚")
}
0