Multiply two numbers (one liner)

... in an original way. Note: the last two numbers are the arguments

perl -le '$_ = 7 x shift; $l = 8 x shift; s/7/$l/g; print length;' 10 
+15
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Re: Multiply two numbers (one liner) by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 30, 2002 at 15:54 UTC
Or: `perl -le 'print length 1 x pop() x pop' 10 15` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Multiply two numbers (one liner) by spurperl (Priest) on Jul 31, 2002 at 07:26 UTC
Ahh... This is surely a much prettier way to do this. Thanks :)	[reply]