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Created December 28, 2011 23:46
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A Perl 1-liner for a 10x10 multiplication grid for my kids
perl -e 'printf "%2s | ", "X"; for my $i (1..10) { printf "%3d ", $i; }; printf "\n---+-"; for my $i (1..10) { print "----"; } print "\n"; for my $i (1..10) { printf "%2d | ", $i; for my $j (1..10) { printf "%3d ", $i * $j; }; print "\n" }'
X | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
---+-----------------------------------------
1 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 | 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
3 | 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30
4 | 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40
5 | 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
6 | 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60
7 | 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70
8 | 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80
9 | 9 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90
10 | 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
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