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(now I can reply here, let me repeat it again) it depend how you want to display the result to the user, you can just compute a number that represent an html page showing the numbers from 1 to n

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The question isn't as to how it will be represented, that's the boring part.

When given a number n, and you want to display them, how will you actually compute the numbers from 1 to n? If you precalculate a table - then how will you do n+1? What about n+2?

it takes a lot of time and patient to come up with a function that works for all n and also have a short length, let me try if I can solve this problem it may takes a few hours or days or maybe months I'll post the solution here so stay tuned. but if you want to make your life easier you can generate the function in a meta language so you can always be sure that your software does not have a halting problem

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