my $calls = 0; my $count = 0; my @digits; my @solutions; append_digit(); print "count: $count\n", join("\n", @solutions), "\n"; print "recursive calls: ", $calls, "\n"; sub append_digit { ++$calls; my $number = join '', @digits; if (@digits && ! grep { $number % $_ } @digits) { print "$count: $number\n" unless ++$count % 100; push @solutions, $number; } for my $digit (1 .. 9) { next if $digit ~~ @digits; push @digits, $digit; append_digit(); pop @digits; } }