Re^3: Code Golf: Four is magic

[thundergnat]

That actually has problems with large numbers (> native integer ?) Once it gets over 64 bits on my machine it converts to scientific notation... which throws off the conversion.

Never mind. Broken

Here's my whack at it - 232 strokes

perl -E'@x=split//,"4335443554366887798866555766";$_=<>;chop;print;whi
+le($_-4){split//,"99aabb87780";$x=0;$x+=hex(pop)*!!$&+($1&&$x[$1]+7)+
+($2>1?$x[$2+18]+$x[$3]:$x[$2.$3])while s/(.??)(.?)(.)$//;say" is $x."
+;print$_=$x}say" is magic."'

__END__
999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 is 231.
231 is 19.
19 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.

[duelafn]

Doesn't seem to work right -- ($1&&$x[$1]+7) adds 7 too often and !!$& has issues with "000".

# 123456789_123456789_1
# onemilliontwentyfour
# onethousandtwentyfour

echo 1000024 | perl duelafn.pl
1000024 is 20.
20 is 6.
6 is 3.
3 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.

echo 1024 | perl duelafn.pl
1024 is 21.
21 is 9.
9 is 4.
4 is magic.

echo 1000024 | haarg.pl
1000024 is 13.
13 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.

echo 1024 | haarg.pl
1024 is 13.
13 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.

echo 1000024 | perl thundergnat.pl
1000024 is 17.
17 is 9.
9 is 4.
4 is magic.

echo 1024 | perl thundergnat.pl
1024 is 13.
13 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.

Update tracked doiwn more details of the bugs.

[Haarg]

I did miss some things there. You should still be able to eliminate the @_ from the pop though.

[duelafn]

Nope, outside a sub it will pop from @ARGV not @_