Update (9/25/2018)

Newer versions of AngularJS (>= 1.3.0) allow you to do this with only a variable (no function needed):

<li ng-repeat="x in [].constructor(number) track by $index">    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span></li>

$scope.number = 5;

This was not possible at the time the question was first asked. Credit to @Nikhil Nambiar from his answer below for this update

Original (5/29/2013)

At the moment, ng-repeat only accepts a collection as a parameter, but you could do this:

<li ng-repeat="i in getNumber(number)">    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span></li>

And somewhere in your controller:

$scope.number = 5;$scope.getNumber = function(num) {    return new Array(num);   }

This would allow you to change $scope.number to any number as you please and still maintain the binding you're looking for.

EDIT (1/6/2014) -- Newer versions of AngularJS (>= 1.1.5) require track by $index:

<li ng-repeat="i in getNumber(number) track by $index">    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span></li>

Here is a fiddle with a couple of lists using the same getNumber function.

you can do this:

<div ng-repeat="i in [1, 2, 3, 4]">  ...</div>

Here is an example of how you could do this. Note that I was inspired by a comment in the ng-repeat docs: http://jsfiddle.net/digitalzebra/wnWY6/

Note the ng-repeat directive:

<div ng-app>    <div ng-controller="TestCtrl">        <div ng-repeat="a in range(5) track by $index">{{$index + 1}}</div>    </div></div>

Here is the controller:

function TestCtrl($scope) {    $scope.range = function(n) {        return new Array(n);    };};