Problems and puzzles released as part of the First Periodic Premier Programming Puzzle Push, an event encouraging high-quality puzzles and tasks.
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1P5: Earthquake!
USGS's seismometers have just detected a major earthquake! Emergency response teams need a quick estimate of the number of people affected. Write a program to compute this estimate.
Your program ...
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1P5: Word Changer
This was written as part of the First Periodic Premier Programming Puzzle Push.
The Game
A starting and ending word of the same length are provided. The objective of the game is to change one ...
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1P5: Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
This task is part of the First Periodic Premier Programming Puzzle Push and is
intended as demonstration of the new king-of-the-hill challenge-type proposal.
The task is the write a program to play ...
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1P5: Nested boxes
This task is part of the First Periodic Premier Programming Puzzle Push.
You get a hierarchy of items in the following format:
2
Hat
1
Gloves
which need to be put in boxes, like so:
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