Way to ng-repeat defined number of times instead o

Question

Is there a way to ng-repeat a defined number of times instead of always having to iterate over an array?

For example, below I want the list item to show up 5 times assuming $scope.number equal to 5 in addition incrementing the number so each list item increments like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Desired result:

<ul>
   <li><span>1</span></li>
   <li><span>2</span></li>
   <li><span>3</span></li>
   <li><span>4</span></li>
   <li><span>5</span></li>
</ul>

Answer 1

Expanding a bit on Ivan's first answer a bit, you can use a string as the collection without a track by statement so long as the characters are unique, so if the use-case is less than 10 numbers as is the question I would simply do:

<ul>
   <li ng-repeat="n in '12345'"><span>{{n}}</span></li>
</ul>

Which is a bit jenky, sure, but simple enough to look at and not particularly confusing.