Auxiliary CTE of numbers - SQL

Following on from the previous auxilary CTE of numbers, http://sqlreportingservicescrystalreports.blogspot.com/2009/12/create-common-table-expression-of.html
I realised after reading T-SQL Querying by Itzik Ben-Gan that he's created a much more efficient way of doing it:


DECLARE @n AS BIGINT;
SET @n = 100;
WITH
L0 AS(SELECT 1 AS c UNION ALL SELECT 1),
L1 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L0 AS A, L0 AS B),
L2 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L1 AS A, L1 AS B),
L3 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L2 AS A, L2 AS B),
L4 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L3 AS A, L3 AS B),
L5 AS(SELECT 1 AS c FROM L4 AS A, L4 AS B),
Nums AS(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY c) AS n FROM L5)
SELECT n FROM Nums WHERE n <= @n;





taken from:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Microsoft-SQL-Server-2005/dp/0735623139