[Israel.pm] What does this code do?

[Moshe Kaminsky]

* Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> [27/04/04 17:36]:
> Hi all!

Hi,

> 
> I wrote the code below to verify the correctness of a solution to my sister's 
> homework. Who can guess what it does?

Much the same as:

perl -e '$N = shift; $num_true_cases=exp(log(3)*$N)-3*exp(log(2)*$N)+3;
    printf "%d\n", $num_true_cases'

At least for natural numbers, that is.

> 
> <<<
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> use strict;
> 
> my $N = shift;
> 
> my $num_true_cases = 0;
> sub helper
> {
>     my (@nums) = (@_);
>     if (scalar(@nums) == $N)
>     {
>         my @bits = (0,0,0);
>         for(@nums)
>         {
>             $bits[$_]=1;
>         }
>         if (! grep {!$_ } @bits)
>         {
>             $num_true_cases++;
>         }
>     }
>     else
>     {
>         for my $next (0..2)
>         {
>             helper(@nums,$next);
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> helper();
> 
> print $num_true_cases, "\n";
> >>>
> 
> Looking back at the code, there are a number of things I could have done 
> differently, and I'll let you make some suggestions before I give mine.
> 
> Gabor, do you think such code understanding-riddles would be a desirable thing 
> on the Perl Starter mailing-list?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Shlomi Fish      shlomif at iglu.org.il
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> 
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