Way to ng-repeat defined number of times instead of repeating over array?

Update (9/25/2018)

Newer versions of AngularJS (>= 1.3.0) allow you to do this with only a variable (no function needed):

<li ng-repeat="x in [].constructor(number) track by $index">
    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span>
</li>

$scope.number = 5;

This was not possible at the time the question was first asked. Credit to @Nikhil Nambiar from his answer below for this update

Original (5/29/2013)

At the moment, ng-repeat only accepts a collection as a parameter, but you could do this:

<li ng-repeat="i in getNumber(number)">
    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span>
</li>

And somewhere in your controller:

$scope.number = 5;
$scope.getNumber = function(num) {
    return new Array(num);   
}

This would allow you to change $scope.number to any number as you please and still maintain the binding you're looking for.

EDIT (1/6/2014) -- Newer versions of AngularJS (>= 1.1.5) require track by $index:

<li ng-repeat="i in getNumber(number) track by $index">
    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span>
</li>

Here is a fiddle with a couple of lists using the same getNumber function.

you can do this:

<div ng-repeat="i in [1, 2, 3, 4]">
  ...
</div>

Here is an example of how you could do this. Note that I was inspired by a comment in the ng-repeat docs: http://jsfiddle.net/digitalzebra/wnWY6/

Note the ng-repeat directive:

<div ng-app>
    <div ng-controller="TestCtrl">
        <div ng-repeat="a in range(5) track by $index">{{$index + 1}}</div>
    </div>
</div>

Here is the controller:

function TestCtrl($scope) {
    $scope.range = function(n) {
        return new Array(n);
    };
};

I think this jsFiddle from this thread might be what you're looking for.

<div ng-app ng-controller="Main">
   <div ng-repeat="item in items | limitTo:2">
       {{item.name}}
   </div>
</div>

A simpler approach would be (for an example of 5 times):

<div ng-repeat="x in [].constructor(5) track by $index">
       ...
</div>