Timeline for Print a string in as few distinct characters as possible
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| Aug 6, 2023 at 8:51 | comment | added | The Empty String Photographer | Well, I guess I can't do unary... | |
| Nov 30, 2021 at 3:12 | answer | added | tsh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 30, 2021 at 0:58 | answer | added | Bushmills | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 26, 2021 at 14:10 | answer | added | MarcMush | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 1:54 | history | edited | ashastral | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Restored validity criterion & rephrased to be more objective
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| Nov 16, 2021 at 9:02 | answer | added | cnamejj | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 20:06 | answer | added | pxeger | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 15:57 | answer | added | Kevin Cruijssen | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 27, 2021 at 11:37 | history | edited | caird coinheringaahin g♦ |
edited tags
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 23:03 | answer | added | qwatry | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 13, 2021 at 1:18 | answer | added | emanresu A | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 8:29 | answer | added | SjoerdPennings | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Feb 9, 2021 at 7:37 | history | bounty ended | user41805 | ||
| S Feb 9, 2021 at 7:37 | history | notice removed | user41805 | ||
| Feb 7, 2021 at 10:46 | answer | added | Wasif | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 7, 2021 at 10:34 | answer | added | Wasif | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 7, 2021 at 9:28 | answer | added | user202729 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 19:08 | answer | added | sporeball | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 13:16 | answer | added | user202729 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 11:22 | comment | added | roblogic | Related: Hello ASCII World | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 11:12 | history | edited | Wheat Wizard♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Updated the challenge
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| Feb 6, 2021 at 10:46 | answer | added | seshoumara | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 8:33 | comment | added | user202729 | Just want to say that banning languages specifically designed for the challenge became "out of style" (what is this called anyway?). codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7473/… // And people don't always define languages syntactically, it's defined by the implementation. | |
| S Feb 6, 2021 at 8:09 | history | bounty started | user41805 | ||
| S Feb 6, 2021 at 8:09 | history | notice added | user41805 | Canonical answer required | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 8:03 | comment | added | user41805 |
Can our program also give errors? (like dc's dc: stack empty message)
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| Feb 6, 2021 at 5:31 | history | reopened |
ashastral rydwolf lyxal Razetime Dingus |
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| Feb 6, 2021 at 4:41 | comment | added | ashastral | Whoops, fixed that | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 4:41 | history | edited | ashastral | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed - Brainfuck was accidentally permitted by the new rules
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| Feb 6, 2021 at 4:31 | comment | added | Dingus | The definition of allowed languages is now clear, but note that BF is syntactically defined by 8 characters. | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 4:11 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Feb 6, 2021 at 3:53 | comment | added | ashastral | That's a fair assessment. I've replaced that parenthetical with a well-defined constraint that exactly matches the answers deemed acceptable. | |
| Feb 6, 2021 at 3:51 | history | edited | ashastral | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Since this was closed due to the vague constraints, I've replaced it with a well-defined constraint that exactly matches the answers deemed acceptable.
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| Feb 4, 2021 at 0:14 | history | closed |
caird coinheringaahin g♦ rydwolf Stephen ovs Dingus |
Opinion-based | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 21:34 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 3, 2021 at 21:29 | answer | added | caird coinheringaahin g♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 21:17 | comment | added | caird coinheringaahin g♦ | I’m voting to close this as primarily opinion-based due to “similar languages (at my discretion) are disallowed” | |
| Feb 3, 2021 at 20:57 | answer | added | Makonede | timeline score: -2 | |
| Apr 30, 2018 at 0:26 | comment | added | sergiol | Related: Keep the unique characters down | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 22:06 | vote | accept | ashastral | ||
| Apr 22, 2013 at 22:05 | vote | accept | ashastral | ||
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| Apr 21, 2013 at 1:23 | comment | added | Soham Chowdhury | I think I can follow the logic. Nice. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 21:58 | comment | added | Hynek -Pichi- Vychodil |
@SohamChowdhury This Erlang function takes string and returns dc program to output this string using 4 distinct chars: F=fun(S)->L=length(S)*8,<<I:L>>=list_to_binary(S),[_|T]=integer_to_list(I,2),io:put_chars([$1,lists:reverse([case X of$1->"dd+";$0->"d+"end||X<-T],[$+||$1<-T]),$P,10])end.
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| Apr 20, 2013 at 1:46 | history | edited | ashastral | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cleaning up old edits
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| Apr 18, 2013 at 23:21 | answer | added | copy | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 20:53 | answer | added | Hynek -Pichi- Vychodil | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 11:18 | comment | added | user7486 | @EAKAE, how many different questions like this would actually be interesting? Many of the answers here are general solutions that can execute arbitrary code. | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 10:41 | answer | added | user7486 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 6:43 | answer | added | ugoren | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 1:14 | comment | added | EAKAE |
Can we make least-characters an official criteria and tag, like code-golf
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 23:48 | history | edited | ashastral | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 186 characters in body
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 22:53 | comment | added | ashastral | @zzzzBov: yes, the leading T needs to be uppercase and everything else lowercase. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 20:06 | answer | added | Adam Balsam | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 17:49 | answer | added | tmartin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 15:41 | answer | added | Peter Taylor | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 15:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCodeGolf/status/324539899611074560 | ||
| Apr 17, 2013 at 14:14 | answer | added | SeanC | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 13:57 | comment | added | zzzzBov | Is the output case sensitive? | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 12:44 | answer | added | Fors | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 11:36 | answer | added | PhiLho | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 10:58 | comment | added | Soham Chowdhury | OP you could make this more fun by requiring that users write a program that takes a string as input and outputs another program that prints the input string with as few chars as possible. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 10:28 | answer | added | manatwork | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 10:00 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 8:10 | answer | added | manatwork | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 7:26 | answer | added | Fors | timeline score: 21 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 7:09 | answer | added | luser droog | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 6:38 | answer | added | Fors | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 3:32 | answer | added | Egor Skriptunoff | timeline score: 24 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 3:29 | answer | added | Geoff Reedy | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 0:18 | answer | added | randomra | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:48 | answer | added | Griffin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:16 | answer | added | flornquake | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 22:56 | answer | added | skeevey | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 21:54 | answer | added | Johannes Kuhn | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 21:52 | answer | added | Paul R | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 21:16 | history | asked | ashastral | CC BY-SA 3.0 |