Code Golf: produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code

[skolenik]

Stata fun activity: produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code (motivated by http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/17005/29454).

Brute force: 2014 is the current year, so it should be a part of the current date (33 characters, unstable, only works this year):

di `: word `=floor(_pi)' of $S_DATE'

Stable: uses conversion of Stata dates, and circumvents some rounding to get there (37 characters):

di ceil(year(exp(_pi*_pi))+sqrt(_pi))

The gold standard data set (36 characters, counting 2 CRs; depends on set varabbrev on, and exploits display weight being interpreted by Stata as display weight[1]):

sysuse auto, clear
di w-l*(h+h)+tr+r

[Sergiy Radyakin]

di strlen("AAAA...AA")

guess how many times?
Easily modified for 2015 too.

Another one:

mata ascii("cabe")-ascii("aaaa")

Another one:

fromroman "MMXIV"

-fromroman- is not in base Stata's installation and to fulfil Statalist's requirements, here is the reference to where it is described:
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.h...iclenum=dm0054
Sergiy Radyakin

[Joseph Coveney]

How about something like the following?

inten `=length(c(Mons))' GE

I'm not sure whether Stata stores handy constants anywhere else but the creturns.

[Joe Canner]

I was thinking along the same lines as Sergiy in his second example, but since he cheated and produced a vector instead of a scalar, here is something similar that produces a scalar:

mata (ascii("x")-ascii("d"))*ascii("d")+ascii("r")-ascii("d")