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Can we start an Obfuscated-Ruby contest?  :-)

>>> Dave / thomases.com 5/26/00 11:01p >>>
2. Going terse. Again, I wrote the code below for simplicity, not
   terseness. I suspect Ruby's more functional style of programming
   would lead to some very compact solutions. Let's see it folks - a
   one-liner please!

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