Re: Questions: how to exclude substring having Evil meanings

7 chars, eh?
N NNN NNN
If you just use the digits 0-9, you're set.
It's just a coincidence that your code is the set of integers from 1 - 5,000,000

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Re^2: Questions: how to exclude substring having Evil meanings by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 02, 2009 at 17:24 UTC
Where did you get 5,000,000 from? 36⁷ is significantly larger: 78,364,164,096	[reply]
Re^3: Questions: how to exclude substring having Evil meanings by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Dec 03, 2009 at 10:45 UTC
I would imagine from the OP: I have a list which contains about 5M records... But it has been updated to add that the list may grow substantially over time, so a solution optimized for 5M items still wouldn't be the Right Answer.	[reply]