Generate a list of lists (or print, I don't mind) a Pascal's Triangle of size N with the least lines of code possible!
Here goes my attempt (118 characters in python 2.6 using a trick):
c,z,k=locals,[0],'_[1]'
p=lambda n:[len(c()[k])and map(sum,zip(z+c()[k][-1],c()[k][-1]+z))or[1]for _ in range(n)]
Explanation:
[1]
[1]
and make [0,1]
and [1,0]
[(0,1),(1,0)]
and map with sum.usage (with pretty printing, actually out of the code-golf xD):
result = p(10)
lines = [" ".join(map(str, x)) for x in result]
for i in lines:
print i.center(max(map(len, lines)))
output:
1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
1 5 10 10 5 1
1 6 15 20 15 6 1
1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1
1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1
1 9 36 84 126 126 84 36 9 1
J, another language in the APL family, 9 characters:
p=:!/~@i.
This uses J's builtin "combinations" verb.
Output:
p 10
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 0 1 3 6 10 15 21 28 36
0 0 0 1 4 10 20 35 56 84
0 0 0 0 1 5 15 35 70 126
0 0 0 0 0 1 6 21 56 126
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 28 84
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 36
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1