Subject: Re: Wanted: Magic Lisp snippets
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 06:43:51 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <1qydnbTIE4KaZrffRVn-rA@speakeasy.net>
Paolo Amoroso  <amoroso@mclink.it> wrote:
+---------------
| Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> writes:
| > I'm looking for very short "magic" snippets of Lisp code: 
| 
| Here is another one:
|   (+ 1/3 1/3 1/3) => 1
+---------------

I tend to start first with this one:

    (+ 1/3 1/6) => 1/2

Then you hit them with either this:

    (+ 1/3 1/4 1/5 1/6) => 19/20

or this:

    (+ 1/3 1/4 1/5 1/6 1/20) => 1


-Rob

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