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Print integers 0 to 100 (inclusive) without using characters 123456789 in your code.

Separator of numbers can be comma or white space (by default <blank>, <horizontal tabulator>, <newline>, <carriage return>, <form feed> or <vertical tabulator>).

Shortest code wins.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Many tricks are made possible by allowing 0. Which is what makes this challenge interesting, IMO. \$\endgroup\$
    – Arnauld
    Feb 23, 2021 at 17:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ I thought "do X without Y" questions weren't allowed anymore. \$\endgroup\$
    – Purple P
    Feb 24, 2021 at 3:34
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    \$\begingroup\$ @PurpleP They're allowed, but discouraged. Interesting ones are fine. \$\endgroup\$ Feb 25, 2021 at 0:06
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    \$\begingroup\$ Is there a requirement to stop printing at 100? \$\endgroup\$
    – spuck
    Feb 25, 2021 at 16:44
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    \$\begingroup\$ Can I use non-ASCII encoding? \$\endgroup\$
    – user100411
    Oct 17, 2021 at 20:36

170 Answers 170

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, 96 93 bytes

^+++(###....+###....+++<..#+...-....###+.@#+...$)+).>+++.$#+...^##=.+###.-#+....+)<++(-+##++>

Unwrapped:

        ^ + + +
        ( # # #
        . . . .
        + # # #
. . . . + + + < . . # + . . . -
. . . . # # # + . @ # + . . . $
) + ) . > + + + . $ # + . . . ^
# # = . + # # # . - # + . . . .
        + ) < +
        + ( - +
        # # + +
        > . . .

I'm not able to provide a direct link, but here you should be able to fork the project and replace the script.txt with either of the above scripts.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ NO idea what this is doing but it looks so pretty 😍 +1 \$\endgroup\$
    – roblogic
    Mar 6, 2021 at 4:14
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Perl 5 (ppencode-compatible), 64 bytes

You didn't clarify that I must separate each with exactly one character, so here it is mine.

print length uc xor s qq q xor print while length ne ord qw q eq

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Explained

   # print(length) did not work for zero as $_ is not defined at then
   print length uc xor
   s qq q xor
   # delimiter
   print
while
   # equals to: length ne 101
   length ne ord qw q eq
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Befunge-93, 16 13 bytes

Thanks to @Cinaski for saving 3 bytes with \! instead of "ba"-.

:.\!+:"d"`#@_

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Uses \! to NOT the 0 at the bottom of the stack and uses that to increment the loop, then tests if the counter is greater than d to end. Certainly not the shortest answer, but this is my first golf challenge, and I wanted to practice Befunge, which I decided to pick up yesterday. This is also my first time trying a stack-based language, and I'm having a lot of fun with it.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to Code Golf. Nice first answer! \$\endgroup\$ Mar 11, 2021 at 15:04
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    \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to the site! You can save 3 bytes by replacing "ba"- with \! 13 bytes \$\endgroup\$
    – Cinaski
    Mar 11, 2021 at 15:25
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Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 15 14 11 bytes

=Range[0,LL

-1 byte from Imanton1

Mathematica interprets the = prefix as a call to Wolfram Alpha (auto-converting it to the orange glyph seen below), which in turn interprets "LL" as a Roman numeral for 100. I used "LL" because this doesn't work with the shorter "C".

enter image description here

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    \$\begingroup\$ You can shave off a byte, since WA uses free-form input, you can drop off the final closing bracket and it can still figure it out. =Range[0,hecto \$\endgroup\$ Oct 17, 2021 at 18:36
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Python 3 20 Bytes

print(*range(*b'e'))

How it works? Basically, doing *b'char' is equivalent to ord('char'), and in this case ord('e') is equal to 101 ; Lets re-create the ord() function!

Ord Function Recreation (Not the answer! Just a demonstration on how ord() works)

ord=lambda x:(int(*bytes(x, 'ascii')))

As you can see it works! You can test this yourself here.

Python 3 25 Bytes

print(*range(0xa*0xa-~0))

How it works? 0xa = 10, ~0 = -1, -~0 = 1 (equivalent to -1*-1)

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    \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to Code Golf! Nice first answer. But 'utf8' contains an 8. \$\endgroup\$
    – alephalpha
    Oct 29, 2021 at 12:24
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    \$\begingroup\$ Yes ; but that was just a explanation on how ord works. Not the answer itself. \$\endgroup\$ Oct 29, 2021 at 12:47
  • \$\begingroup\$ Even though not needed ; I decided to change the ord() explanation from 'utf8' to 'ascii' just to clear up some confusion. Thank you. \$\endgroup\$ Oct 29, 2021 at 12:53
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Javascript, 48 bytes

for(a of Array("e".charCodeAt()).keys())alert(a)

Can be shorter, if you allow in reverse (36 chars)

for(i="e".charCodeAt();--i;)alert(i)
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Your 50 bytes solution doesn't output 0. To fix it just remove that unnecessary pre-incrementation and change the "d" to "e". \$\endgroup\$
    – manatwork
    Feb 27, 2021 at 22:22
  • \$\begingroup\$ @manatwork i thought we didnt have to print 0, at the time i wrote the solution. I'll fix it :) thanks \$\endgroup\$
    – user100752
    Feb 28, 2021 at 16:52
  • \$\begingroup\$ 40 forward \$\endgroup\$
    – l4m2
    Mar 28, 2022 at 19:20
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Python, 25 23 bytes

print(*range(ord('e')))

-2 by Steffan, remove first parameter (0) from call to range

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    \$\begingroup\$ The 0, is not needed \$\endgroup\$
    – naffetS
    Jul 7, 2022 at 19:54
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    \$\begingroup\$ Thanks a lot! I'll use it. \$\endgroup\$
    – Eric Xue
    Jul 8, 2022 at 1:41
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APL (Dyalog), 19 bytes

⎕←0,⍳(+/⍳≢⍬⍬⍬⍬)*≢⍬⍬

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≢⍬⍬⍬⍬ ⍝ This evaluates to 4
≢⍬⍬ ⍝ This evaluates to 2

⍳≢⍬⍬⍬⍬ ⍝ Evaluates to 1 2 3 4
(+/⍳≢⍬⍬⍬⍬) ⍝ Sums up previous list, 1+2+3+4 = 10
(+/⍳≢⍬⍬⍬⍬)*≢⍬⍬ ⍝ Exponentiates previous result by 2
⍳(+/⍳≢⍬⍬⍬⍬)*≢⍬⍬ ⍝ Generates 1 2 ... 100
0,⍳(+/⍳≢⍬⍬⍬⍬)*≢⍬⍬ ⍝ Appends 0 to front
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    \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to Code Golf, and nice answer! \$\endgroup\$ Nov 9, 2021 at 20:23
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Lua (34 30 bytes)

for i=0,0xA*0xA do print(i)end
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AWK, 26 bytes

{for(;a<=0xa*0xa;)$a=a++}a

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Thanks to xnor for pointing out a brainfart (since fixed) in the original

This works by using 0xa*0xa to compute 100, then assigns each positional variable to it's own sequential number. Then the a without a code block (evaluates as truthy since a is 100) prints all the positional arguments separated by a space.

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure why the 0 prints but it does. :)

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    \$\begingroup\$ I don't think that the 1 is allowed unfortunately \$\endgroup\$
    – xnor
    Feb 26, 2021 at 17:34
  • \$\begingroup\$ Wow, that was dumb. :) Thanks! The fix was simple enough and didn't change the length of the code, \$\endgroup\$
    – cnamejj
    Feb 26, 2021 at 19:37
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    \$\begingroup\$ Why the zero prints: tio.run/##SyzP/v@/Oi2/… \$\endgroup\$ Feb 28, 2021 at 11:36
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MATLAB, 13 bytes

0:double('d')

The ASCII code for lowercase d is 100, so convert to a double and go from 0 in intervals of 1 with ":"

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to the site, and nice first answer! \$\endgroup\$ Feb 26, 2021 at 20:47
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Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 20 bytes

The only real golfing opportunity for this question in the Wolfram language is to encode the number 100 with as few bytes as possible. There is only one real-valued constant symbol in the Wolfram language with a one byte name, namely E.

I thus looked for combinations of binary operations that were near 100. (E+E)^E is about 99.73, so adding E/E will give a suitable endpoint.

Range[0,(E+E)^E+E/E]

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    \$\begingroup\$ You can change E/E to 0! to save a byte. \$\endgroup\$
    – Axuary
    Mar 2, 2021 at 4:16
5
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Rust, 41 40 39 35 bytes

Thanks to Redwolf for -1 byte, Unrelated String for -4

||for i in 0..b'e'{print!("{} ",i)}

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39 bytes

||(0..b'e').all(|i|print!("{} ",i)==())

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40 bytes

||(0..b'e').for_each(|i|print!("{} ",i))

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to Code Golf, and nice first answer! Can you save a byte by getting rid of that space before i in the print!? \$\endgroup\$ Oct 30, 2021 at 22:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ Would this work for 35? \$\endgroup\$ Oct 30, 2021 at 23:58
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Desmos, 25 bytes

o=0
o->[0...eeeln(eeeee)]

Not sure if this is an acceptable form of output but it's still an interesting answer imo. Click the right arrow (->) to run.

Try It On Desmos!

This takes advantage of Desmos's implicit rounding with list ranges, which will always round both start and end numbers to the nearest integer. In this case, eeeln(eeeee) is mathematically equivalent to \$e^3\cdot5\approx100.42768\$ (\$e\approx2.71828\$ is Euler's number), which rounds down to 100.

If not acceptable, then here's an alternative version that might be more acceptable:

31 bytes

l=[0...eeeln(eeeee)]
(l,0)
${l}

Paste first two equations into Desmos, and label the list of points (l,0) as ${l}. Move the viewport to the right to view more numbers.

Try It On Desmos!

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  • \$\begingroup\$ wouldn't it be valid to remove o=0? because then you just click add slider and the output is there. but idk, should prob ask on meta \$\endgroup\$
    – naffetS
    May 12, 2022 at 4:01
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Steffan I considered that, but I'm not so sure if that's valid. I'm gonna ask on TNB and see what they say. \$\endgroup\$
    – Aiden Chow
    May 12, 2022 at 4:25
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Powershell, 18 bytes

0..[byte][char]'d'
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    \$\begingroup\$ -5 bytes Try it online! \$\endgroup\$ Feb 23, 2021 at 18:12
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    \$\begingroup\$ -9 bytes Try it online! \$\endgroup\$
    – Julian
    Feb 23, 2021 at 21:25
  • \$\begingroup\$ @ZaelinGoodman, Julian for some unknown reason I can't access TIO, I will update as soon as I can go, thanks! \$\endgroup\$
    – Wasif
    Feb 24, 2021 at 6:56
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Julian Wow, nice one!! \$\endgroup\$ Feb 24, 2021 at 13:00
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jq, 20 characters

range("e"|explode[])

Sample run:

bash-5.0$ jq -n 'range("e"|explode[])' | head
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

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APL(Dyalog Unicode), 8 bytes SBCS

⍳⎕UCS'e'

Try it on APLgolf!

A tradfn submission which prints with space separator.

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Julia 1.0, 19 bytes

println.(0:0xA*0xA)

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bc, 17 bytes

for(;i<=A*A;i++)i

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K (ngn/k), 6 bytes

!0+"e"

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Uses 0+ to convert "e" to an integer, then takes the range from 0 up to, but not including, that value (101).

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Rattle, 14 bytes

i+R`c0c0$[+i]~

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Explanation

i                    prints the value at the top of the stack (0) 
 +                   adds 1 to the value on top of the stack (which was 0, is now 1.0)
  R`                 reformats the top of the stack with the arg ` (the value at the top of the stack).
                        since ` = 1, it reformats the top of the stack as the integer 1
    c0c0             concatenates the value in storage at the current pointer (=0) to the top of the 
                        stack twice, resulting in "100"
        $            swaps the value on top of the stack (100) with the value in storage at the 
                        current pointer (0)
         [ .... ]~   loop structure: loops ~ times, where ~ = value_in_storage_at_pointer = 100
            +        adds one to the value on top of the stack
             i       prints the top of the stack as an integer

Note: the above code is based on version 1.0.* of Rattle. With the newest update (1.1.0), the code could be shortened to the following snippet (12 bytes) because the addition operator will now keep the top of the stack the same type (in this case, an integer) if possible.

i+c0c0$[+i]~
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Bash, 26 bytes

eval echo {$[x++]..${x}00}

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(Previously)

Bash, 28 bytes

eval echo {$((++x))..${x}00}

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to Code Golf! Nice first answer. \$\endgroup\$ Feb 27, 2021 at 0:05
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    \$\begingroup\$ Your solution doesn't output 0, but fortunately the fix will cost you no extra character: just change the pre-increment to post-increment. While fixing it, you could change the $((..)) arithmetic evaluation to the deprecated but still functional old $[..] syntax to save 2 characters. (We have Tips for golfing in Bash in case you are looking for more tips.) \$\endgroup\$
    – manatwork
    Feb 27, 2021 at 0:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ Thx for the tips @manatwork. Updated \$\endgroup\$ Mar 2, 2021 at 3:05
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Vim, 21 bytes

qqYP<C-x>qi0<esc><C-a>a00@q<esc>Yxx@0

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Explanation

qq       q                             Record macro q:
  Y                                     Yank the current line
   P                                    Paste a copy of it on the line above
    <C-x>                               Decrement the number under the cursor
          i0<esc>                      Insert a 0
                 <C-a>                 Increment it to 1
                      a00@q<esc>       Append 00@q
                                Y      Yank this line (100@q)
                                 xx    Delete the @q part
                                   @0  Execute the yanked text as commands
                                       (100@q executes the q macro 100 times)
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Zig, 63 66 47 72 bytes

fn a()void{for(" "**'e')|_,i|{@import("std").debug.print("{d} ",.{i});}}

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I've excluded the @import() boilerplate as it seems analogous to C's #include, which is excluded from other answers. If deemed necessary, I will add it back in.

Explanation

fn a() void {
    for (" " ** 'e') |_, i| {
        @import("std").debug.print("{d} ",.{i});
    }
}
  • fn a() void Declare a function which takes no parameters and returns nothing
  • for () |_, i| For every item in the array inside of (), iterate and capture the entree as _ (a throwaway variable) and the index as i
  • " " ** 'e' Take the string (strings are slices, or pointer-arrays which know their length) and repeat it 'e' (101) times
  • ** Requires a little bit more more explanation I think: In Zig, there is the concept of "comptime" (compile time) and runtime. ** is an operator which repeats any array literal or slice literal at comptime, because the resulting length is still known to the compiler.
  • @import("std").debug.print("",.{}); Print to STDERR (I believe that's valid for this question, right?), the first argument is the formatting string, and the second is an "anonymous sctruct"/tuple with a variable number of arguments in it (Zig doesn't have var-args).
  • "{d} " The format string. Zig denotes {} as the formatting characters, with d meaning a digit in this case.
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Rust, 46 bytes

I did not see a rust solution, so here's my attempt:

||print!("{:?}",(0..b'e').collect::<Vec<_>>())

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Thanks to @ovs for pointing out the closure variant.

The range (0..b'e') is collected into a vector (using the placeholder _, letting the compiler figure out the type) and printed using the debug formatter {:?}, which "dumps" the entire vector.

The range upper bound is exclusive, and is represented using the byte literal b'e', which is equivalent to an u8 integer number literal; in this case 101 (e's ASCII value).

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  • \$\begingroup\$ How do you get 45 bytes? Your submission has to be either a full program (like the current code at 56 bytes) or a function/closure which can be 46 bytes \$\endgroup\$
    – ovs
    Oct 29, 2021 at 15:55
  • \$\begingroup\$ I am sorry, I forgot to update the header after including fn main() { ... }. Will use the closure version. Thank you for pointing this out! \$\endgroup\$ Oct 29, 2021 at 16:06
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C, 53 bytes

int main(a,b){for(;a^'f';a++){printf("%d\n",a-!!a);}}

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43 42 bytes

(Thanks to Jo King♦)

k;main(){for(;k^'e';)printf("%d ",k++);}

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    \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to code golf, and nice first answer! Make sure to check out our tips for golfing in C to see if there's any way for you to shorten your code. \$\endgroup\$ Oct 29, 2021 at 13:37
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unsure, 99 bytes

ummmmm uhhhh errrrr uhhh um errrrr um um yeah err heh but um yeah err then uh okay um err then wait

It's not the shortest.

Explanation:

push 101                  ummmmm uhhhh errrrr uhhh um errrrr
push 0 to other stack     um um yeah err heh
loop                      but ... wait
  decrement                 um yeah err
  print + increment other   then uh okay um err then
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Maybe I do something wrong, but when testing it with the interpreter you linked, it only prints the numbers up to 99. \$\endgroup\$
    – manatwork
    Feb 28, 2021 at 3:34
  • \$\begingroup\$ i misread the challenge, costs 4 bytes i'll fix \$\endgroup\$ Feb 28, 2021 at 4:08
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C - 37 Bytes

i;f(){while(i<'e')printf("%d",i++);}

Ungolfed

i;
f()
{
    while(i < 'e')
        printf("%d", i++);
}

Explanation

Function to print numbers from 0 to 100 without digits. A global variable of type integer is created (so that it is automatically initialized to 0), the variable is incremented and printed 100 times through a loop which is executed while the variable is less than 'e' or 101 in ASCII.

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Minecraft, 217 bytes + ?minecraft

From left to right the commands in the command blocks are

scoreboard players operation a a += b a
tellraw @a {"score":{"name":"a","objective":"a"}}
scoreboard objectives add a dummy
scoreboard players set a a 0
execute store result score b a run data get entity @p playerGameType

The command blocks on the right set a to 0 and b to the playerGameType of the player, which is 1 if the player is in creative mode. The blocks on the left repeatedly print a, then add b to a. It's stopped at exactly 100 by the piston removing the repeater powering the command block.

I'm not sure how to score this or if it's even allowed but I thought it was kind of cool.

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    \$\begingroup\$ i think you should use structure blocks as indicated by this meta post/answer... \$\endgroup\$
    – zoomlogo
    May 17, 2022 at 15:45
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Python 3, 41 bytes

Still learning ... best I could do:

for n in range(0, ord('e')):
    print(n)
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    \$\begingroup\$ Hey, welcome to CGCC! this isnt a bad first answer, but as this is a code golfing site, we do require all submissions to show at least an attempt at golfing (shortening the code as much as possible). You could shorten this code significantly by shortening the name of your variable, and by removing some whitespace, like this \$\endgroup\$
    – des54321
    Apr 17, 2022 at 1:44
  • \$\begingroup\$ Welcome to Code Golf! Like des54321 said, there's a few things you could do to golf this. Making that string a single line would be a good first step, since we don't care at all about readability here. You could also maybe keep track of a variable i and print that, +=1ing it in each iteration, then you don't need the range(0,len()) and can save some bytes. \$\endgroup\$ Apr 17, 2022 at 3:58
  • \$\begingroup\$ Also, of course, since you're only using the big string once, you dont even need to assign it to a variable, and you can just throw it directly in the for statement \$\endgroup\$
    – des54321
    Apr 17, 2022 at 18:10
  • \$\begingroup\$ Ahh... fewest bytes is, obviously, the goal here... but thank you for the tips and advice! Especially since I honestly didn't realize whitespace would count towards the # of bytes. Thanks again :) \$\endgroup\$ Apr 24, 2022 at 5:50
  • \$\begingroup\$ I've restored this answer and added the score as I think it makes a genuine attempt at brevity. However you can still remove some whitespace here. All the whitespace (including newlines) after the , can be removed. You can see a general list of tips for python here. \$\endgroup\$
    – Wheat Wizard
    May 23, 2022 at 12:56

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