Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals
Task: Print numbers from 1 to 1000 without using any loop or conditional statements. Don't just write the printf()
or cout
statement 1000 times.
How would you do that using C or C++?
This one actually compiles to assembly that doesn't have any conditionals:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void main(int j) {
printf("%d\n", j);
(&main + (&exit - &main)*(j/1000))(j+1);
}
Edit: Added '&' so it will consider the address hence evading the pointer errors.
This version of the above in standard C, since it doesn't rely on arithmetic on function pointers:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void f(int j)
{
static void (*const ft[2])(int) = { f, exit };
printf("%d\n", j);
ft[j/1000](j + 1);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
f(1);
}
Compile time recursion! :P
#include <iostream>
template<int N>
struct NumberGeneration{
static void out(std::ostream& os)
{
NumberGeneration<N-1>::out(os);
os << N << std::endl;
}
};
template<>
struct NumberGeneration<1>{
static void out(std::ostream& os)
{
os << 1 << std::endl;
}
};
int main(){
NumberGeneration<1000>::out(std::cout);
}
#include <stdio.h>
int i = 0;
p() { printf("%d\n", ++i); }
a() { p();p();p();p();p(); }
b() { a();a();a();a();a(); }
c() { b();b();b();b();b(); }
main() { c();c();c();c();c();c();c();c(); return 0; }
I'm surprised nobody seems to have posted this -- I thought it was the most obvious way. 1000 = 5*5*5*8.