Turning number ranges into prefixes

Simon Cozens simon at simon-cozens.org
Wed Aug 23 15:31:06 BST 2006


David Cantrell:
> 1424222, 1424223, 1424224, 1424225.  That range includes all the numbers
> of the right length with those prefixes, and no others.  Is there a
> terribly clever way of generating the list?

String XOR the numbers together.

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