Re^2: Determining if a rational number terminates

This produces a deprecation warning in recent versions of Perl thanks to ?/?. You can use '/' or "/" instead to avoid the deprecation warning. Perl is smart enough to know you meant a regexp rather than a string if it follows =~.

bigrat is in core, so I don't consider it cheating. Now, if you wrote chkrat.pm, and uploaded it to CPAN specifically to help your golf score, that would be cheating.

However, I'm disappointed by the lack of a line break.

Here's my reinterpretation of your implementation. I've added a line break at the cost of three keystrokes, but managed to save six keystrokes elsewhere...

use bigrat;print((shift()*10**1000/shift)=~"/"?N:Y,$/)
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These are also quite cute, though very slightly longer...

use bigrat;print[Y,N]->[(shift()*10**1000/shift)=~"/"],$/
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use bigrat;$_=shift()*10**1000/shift;print[Y,N]->[m"/"],$/
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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^3: Determining if a rational number terminates by ColonelPanic (Friar) on Nov 30, 2012 at 10:46 UTC
Thanks for your suggestions. Here is a yet shorter version: `use bigrat;print+(1e1000/pop()*pop)=~"/"?N:Y,$/` [download] When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? --Larry Wall	[reply] [d/l]