orderlycubes.rb demonstrates a base-10 repeating number pattern where adding the cubes of certain numbers appears to simply concatenate the original bases, as visualized in this tweet.
- Ruby, obviously.
- There is one recommended gem dependency,
colorize. The script will either detect it and use it or not detect it and not use it.
> ruby orderlycubes.rb
Or, on a Unix-like shell:
> chmod +x orderlycubes.rb; ./orderlycubes.rb
The script accepts one optional argument, which must consist only of numerical digits, and sets the number of iterations to calculate (default: 33).
> ruby orderlycubes.rb 3