[gmantastic]

Yeah, you're stuck with counting up from 1, although you could tweak it to suppress the output prior to a starting point.

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Here is my C solution for arbitrary positive range: http://ideone.com/a0EdtS

[gmantastic]

Nice, I get it. Here's mine tweaked - not so clever: https://gist.github.com/garethjwilliams/7210264