Re: Self-recognizing programs and regular expressions

Josh Goldberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
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How does this look?

^.[\\\[\]{}18.]{18}.$

On Mar 7, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Jasvir Nagra wrote:
>
> The challenge then is to find a regular expression inequ or failing
> that, the regular expression that accepts the smallest set of strings
> including itself.  The score of an entry is the size of the set of
> strings it accepts.  If two regular expressions find the same size set
> of strings, the shorter regular expression wins.
>
> I will summarise entries at
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas/toys/inequ.html#score
>
> The par entry is:
>
> Entry 		Score
> ^.{6}$ 		255^6
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