Invert a Quine!

Question

We all know what a quine is. An inverted quine is a non-empty program that prints the inverse of its source code without reading its source code, and consists solely of printable-ASCII characters (space through ~).

Here, “inverse of the source code” means the following: the output of your program must contain each printable ASCII character (m − c) times, where c is the number of times said character occurs in your code, and m is the maximum number of times any character is repeated in your code.

(In other words: your code + your output = permutation of m times all of printable-ASCII.)

For example, if your program is 12345, then m = 1, and you should output any permutation of this string:

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./06789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

If your program is AAB, then m = 2, and you should output any permutation of:

  !!""##$$%%&&''(())**++,,--..//00112233445566778899::;;<<==>>??@@BCCDDEEFFGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUVVWWXXYYZZ[[\\]]^^__``aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~

Note how there are two missing As, and one missing B.

Although a program that contains all the printable ASCII characters and outputs nothing is a valid inverse quine (satisfying m = 1), such an answer would not be very competitive, given its length.

You are to write a program that is an inverted quine, as described in the above paragraph. As this is code-golf, the shortest program in bytes will win. Good luck!

Answer 1

Brain-Flak, 221 207 bytes

Includes +1 for -A

(((((((()()()()){}){}()){}){})()){}{}){({}[()]<((((((()()()()){}){}){})<>[()()()])[()])((((()()()){})){}{})<>((()()()()){}){({}[()]<(({})())>)}{}({}()())<>{{({}<>[()]<(({})())><>)}{}<>(({}())()())<>}<>>)}{}

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# Push 206 (the number of times to duplicate the output)
(((((((()()()()){}){}()){}){})()){}{})

# For 0 to 206
{({}[()]<

    # Push 32 on this stack and 18, 28 and 29 to the other
    # 18, 28 and 29 are the distances between the sets of braces 
    ((((((()()()()){}){}){})<>[()()()])[()])((((()()()){})){}{})<>

    # For 0 to 8
    ((()()()()){}){({}[()]<

        # Push TOS, TOS + 1
        (({})())

    # end For 0 to 8
    >)}{}

    # Push TOS + 2 
    # skips '(' and ')'
    ({}()())

    # For each value on the off stack (18, 28, 28)
    <>{

        # For 0 to that number
        {({}<>[()]<

            # Push TOS, TOS + 1
            (({})())

        # End for 0 to that number
        ><>)}{}

        # Push TOS + 1, TOS + 3 (skips this set of braces)
        <>(({}())()())<>

    # End for each value on the off stack (18, 28, 28)
    }<>

 # End for 0 to 206
 >)}{}

Answer 2

CJam, 17 bytes

{s95c+'|,32>\-}_~

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Prints

 !"#$%&()*./014678:;<=?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^`abdefghijklmnopqrtuvwxyz

Explanation

The goal was to modify the standard quine

{"_~"}_~

such that no character is repeated in the program. The reason for this is that CJam has a set different operator which we can use to remove characters from the printable ASCII range, but it doesn't take number of occurrences into account. Implementing that by hand would probably be longer, so I needed to make sure that every character appears only once and we don't have to worry about occurrences.

{      e# Quine framework. Executes the block while leaving another copy of the
       e# block on the stack.
  s    e#   Stringify the block, giving us "{s95c+'|,32>\-}".
  95c  e#   Convert 95 to a character, which gives us '_' without repeating
       e#   it in the source code.
  +    e#   Append it to the string. We don't need to worry about '~', we'll just
       e#   leave it out of the printable ASCII range to begin with.
  '|,  e#   Get a character range from the null byte up to '{'. This omits "|}~",
       e#   but those are in the program anyway, it doesn't matter.
  32>  e#   Discard the unprintable characters.
  \-   e#   Subtract the source string from the printable ASCII range.
}_~

Answer 3

Python 3, 83 bytes

print(~2/8,6>9)#!"$%&'*+14:;<=?@ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`bcdfghjkmoquvwxyz{|}

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Prints -0.375 False.

Answer 4

05AB1E, 95 61 60 bytes (not 58 b/c I dislike that one)

A?9L<J, !"'#$%&()*+-./:;=>@BCDEFGHIKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`{|}~

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Old answer invalidated by "only-ASCII characters", a lot of commands aren't valid here.

It prints abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz012345678 one time as there are no duplicated characters.

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Version with BCDEFGHIKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ removed:

Work in progress... I think ~60 bytes is as low as you get without non-ASCII characters in 05AB1E..

05AB1E, 58 bytes

T5+FA'uK?Au"ADLJFKST"SK?9L<5KJ?} !#$%&()*>-./:;=@[]^_`{|~\

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Prints the output x12 due to the repeated characters:

['""', '55', '???', 'AAA', 'FF', 'JJ', 'KKKK', 'LL', 'SS', 'TT', 'uu']

It also doesn't terminate quite correctly, working on that now...

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Invalid old answers (due to non-ASCII characters) have been removed, see edit history.

Answer 5

Java 8, 106 99 190 bytes

class i {/*{}!"#$%&'()+,-.0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`bdefghjkmnopqrtuvwxyz|~!"#$%&'()+,-.0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`claibdefghjkmnopqrtuvwxyz|~*/}

Answer 6

Javascript (ES6), 103 101 bytes

_=>` !"#$%&'()*+,-.0123456789:;<?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~`//_=>\\

Old solution (103 bytes using alert)

alert;;alert`\ \!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_bcdfghijkmnopqsuvwxyz{|}~`

Old (invalid) solution (96 bytes)

alert()// !"#$%&'*+,-.0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`bcdfghijkmnopqsuvwxyz{|}~