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From: mmphosis <mmphosis@macgui.com>
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Subject: Re: 2014
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:49:45 +0000 (UTC)
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aiiadict wrote:
> On Sunday, January 5, 2014 2:51:28 PM UTC-8, mmphosis wrote:
>> T=.^.:Z=T+T:?Z.T;Z^Z
> 
> I meant to post this reply when I saw your post, but google groups was
> broken....
> 
> how does this work?
> 
> looks like . to the power of .   ???
> 
> does it use ascii values or something?
> 
> neat!
>

. is evaluated as zero.  Anything to the power of zero is one.

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/17005/produce-the-number-2014-without-any-numbers-in-your-source-code