Output your Score!

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Challenge:

The concept is simple enough: write a full program to output its own code golf score!

Output should only be the byte count of your program and a trailing bytes.

BUT WAIT..... there is one restriction:

Your source code can not include any of the digits from your byte count
So if your score is 186 bytes, your program can not contain the characters 1 , 6 , or 8

Example Output:

315 bytes
27 Bytes
49 BYTES

Additional Rules:

Unnecessary characters, spaces, and newlines are forbidden in the source code, however trailing spaces and newlines are perfectly acceptable in output
There should be a single space between the number and bytes in the output
Letters are case insensitive
No self inspection or reading the source code
standard loopholes are disallowed
this is code-golf, so

Shortest code in bytes wins!

@Dat, given the formatting of the word bytes I suspect the intention is that the count should include the bytes it takes to print the text: bytes — Jeff Schaller, Mar 29, 2018 at 16:16
If my code is 1 byte long, should I output 1 bytes or 1 byte? (keep in mind there are already 41 answers, although I don't think any are affected) — Erik the Outgolfer, Mar 29, 2018 at 18:07

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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SmileBASIC, 12 bytes

?3*4;" bytes

(Probably works in a bunch of other BASIC dialects, too)

Alternatives:

?&HC;" bytes
?9+3;" bytes

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answered Mar 29, 2018 at 17:41

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manatwork · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 17:46:56Z

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jamal, 14 characters

{@* 2 7} bytes

Sample run:

bash-4.4$ perl jamal.pl ownsize.jam 
14 bytes

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rafa11111 · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 17:53:21Z

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Fortran (GFortran), 24 bytes

PRINT*,11+13,'BYTES'
END

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Outputs "24 BYTES" with some leading spaces, because, you know, it's Fortran... you can't tell him to do something and expect that he will do exactly as you said, specially if it involves strings :)

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AdmBorkBork · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 20:01:21Z

1

PowerShell, 14 bytes

"$(2*7) bytes"

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Ho-hum. Uses an inline code block $(...) to put 14 into the string before leaving it on the pipeline. Output is implicit.

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siracusa · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 21:51:04Z

1

TeX, 16 bytes

^^q^^v bytes\bye

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anna328p · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 22:19:05Z

1

Ruby, 15 bytes

p"#{0xf} bytes"

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answered Mar 29, 2018 at 22:19

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Conor O'Brien · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 23:05:00Z

1

Foo, 13 bytes

&9+4$i" bytes

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Explanation

&9+4$i" bytes
&9              push 9
  +4            add 4 (13)
    $i          output as integer
      " bytes   print out " bytes"

14 bytes

@20&$h" bytes"

Same general idea, but (ab)uses hexadecimal printing.

answered Mar 29, 2018 at 23:05

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chromaticiT · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 05:42:26Z

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Pyth, 11 bytes

+hT" bytes"

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answered Mar 30, 2018 at 5:42

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\$\begingroup\$ Why do you have h? Doesn't that just add the eleventh byte that it's there to account for, and it can thus be removed safely? \$\endgroup\$
– Steven H.
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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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Python 2, 18 17 bytes

print 8+9,'bytes'

-1 byte thanks to @Wondercricket.

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answered Mar 29, 2018 at 15:52

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\$\begingroup\$ That trailing space is not in the output, I think it's still precisely what the rule is intended to forbid. However, you can use parentheses around 2*9 instead. \$\endgroup\$
– Ørjan Johansen
Mar 30, 2018 at 0:48
\$\begingroup\$ @ØrjanJohansen I changed it to 8+9 instead to save a byte. :) \$\endgroup\$
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Mar 30, 2018 at 6:58

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Kamila Borowska · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 09:31:51Z

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Rust, 34 bytes

fn main(){print!("{} bytes",17*2)}

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answered Mar 30, 2018 at 9:31

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arekzyla · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 10:59:04Z

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C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 20 bytes

Write(11+9+" bytes")

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answered Mar 30, 2018 at 10:59

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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Excel, 13 bytes

=6+7&" bytes"

Output: 13 bytes

Nothing fancy. It's different from the other Excel answers as those are both based in VBA. This formula version is longer.

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answered Mar 30, 2018 at 16:40

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Probably · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 17:39:12Z

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T-SQL, 32 bytes

print char(51)+char(50)+' bytes'

Best I could come up with.

answered Mar 30, 2018 at 17:39

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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Javascript,26 bytes

console.log(78/3+" bytes")

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answered Mar 30, 2018 at 23:39

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Stewie Griffin · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-01 15:47:46Z

Octave, 42 bytes

I figured I'd try a more interesting approach that's Octave-specific (and only works on some platforms).

printf('%i bytes',printf('%c',8+~(10:51)))

Note: This doesn't work on TIO or Octave-online.net, but it does work on Octave 4.2.0 on my laptop.

Explanation:

printf('%i bytes',... ) specifies that we will print a string starting with an integer %i followed by the characters ' bytes'. The second part of the first printf-function call is another call to printf('%c',...). When printf is called with an output argument, it returns the number of characters in the output string, as well as the string. The second part of the second printf call is 8+~(10:51). This is a shorter way to write [8, 8, 8 ...] 42 times. 8 is the ASCII-value of the backspace. The string to be printed is therefore 42 backspaces. This doesn't show when typing it in the terminal, so we'll get 42 bytes without a trailing newline:

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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MySQL, 28 bytes

SELECT CONCAT(7*4,' bytes');

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answered Apr 1, 2018 at 16:32

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sergiol · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-02 14:49:27Z

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Tcl, 23 bytes

puts [scan  %c]\ bytes

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Tcl, 23 bytes

puts [expr 19+4]\ bytes

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Fyr · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-05 15:42:36Z

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Husk, 8 bytes

+sD4¨₆Ẏ¿

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Explanation

+sD4¨₆Ẏ¿
    ¨₆Ẏ¿  Compressed string of " bytes"
  D4        Multiply 4 by 2
 s          Convert to string
+         Concatenate the strings

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MegaTom · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-22 04:34:10Z

1

Befunge-98 (FBBI), 12 bytes

"c.4k,@setyb

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Thank you Jo King and Mistah Figgins for -3 bytes.

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answered Mar 29, 2018 at 18:50

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\$\begingroup\$ 13 bytes \$\endgroup\$
– Jo King ♦
Mar 29, 2018 at 22:34
\$\begingroup\$ 12 bytes \$\endgroup\$
– MercyBeaucou
Apr 21, 2018 at 19:01

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Conor O'Brien · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-26 22:43:30Z

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Attache, 19 bytes

Print&$bytes!STN!$t

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Explanation

Print&$bytes!STN!$t
Print       !          print
     &$bytes           (with "bytes" as a right argument)
             STN!      convert string to number...
                 $t    "t" (corresponds to 19)

In sane syntax, this is: Print[STN["t"], "bytes"], which joins the arguments by spaces.

answered Sep 26, 2018 at 22:43

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u-ndefined · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-27 09:14:56Z

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Pepe, 74 bytes

rEeEeeEeEereEEreeeEeeeeereeEEeeeEereeEEEEeeEreeEEEeEeereeEEeeEeEreeEEEeeEE

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It's a boring answer, rEeEeeEeEereEE pushes 74 into stack r and outputs the number, and the rest of the code prints bytes

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dieter · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-27 14:31:44Z

1

Python (REPL), 16 bytes

'%d bytes'%(8*2)

Output :

16 bytes

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answered Sep 27, 2018 at 14:28

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\$\begingroup\$ You could use f-strings like f'{7*2} bytes' \$\endgroup\$
– Jo King ♦
Sep 27, 2018 at 14:34
\$\begingroup\$ Or, if you insist on using an older version of Python, you could use raw string r'%d bytes'%14 \$\endgroup\$
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Sep 27, 2018 at 16:04

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Ray · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-27 17:26:30Z

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vim, 12 bytes

a9 bytes<ESC>03<C-A>

<ESC> is 0x1b. <C-A> is 0x01

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MickyT · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-27 19:38:05Z

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Cubix, 23 bytes

@"!w"SETYB"uUo<S;O'$.;

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Cubified:

    @ "
    ! w
" S E T Y B " u
U o < S ; O  '
    $ .
    ; .

Watch it run

Failrly simple pushes SETYB onto the stack, pushes character 23 (ETB) and outputs as an integer. Push 32 (space) onto the stack then start outputting chars and popping until stack is empty.

answered Sep 27, 2018 at 19:38

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Robin B · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-28 12:15:48Z

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LOLCODE, 66 bytes

Just because it's funny

HAI 1.2,VISIBLE SMOOSH PRODUKT OF 2 AN 33 AN " bytes" MKAY,KTHXBYE

Output

66 bytes

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\$\begingroup\$ +1 because it's funny \$\endgroup\$
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wooshinyobject · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-28 12:59:54Z

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MBASIC, 17 bytes

6 PRINT 8+9"bytes

MBASIC requires line numbers; "6" doesn't appear in the output either. Turns out that the trailing quote is optional.

Output:

RUN
 17 bytes
Ok

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answered Sep 27, 2018 at 17:58

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\$\begingroup\$ Byte count is calculated from the source code, not the RAM it takes up. So this should be 18 bytes. But +1 for using an uncommon language; we need more variety around here. \$\endgroup\$
– Ray
Sep 27, 2018 at 18:23
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\$\begingroup\$ Even with a tokenizing interpreter? \$\endgroup\$
– wooshinyobject
Sep 27, 2018 at 19:08
\$\begingroup\$ Yes. If the size of the target language/object code/internal representation mattered, the score would change every time improvements were made to the implementation's optimizer. And there would be a lot of situations where making the source code larger would make the target code smaller, and vice versa, since optimizers work better when they have a lot of explicit information about what assumptions are safe to make. \$\endgroup\$
– Ray
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AlexRacer · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-28 13:44:53Z

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Pascal (FPC), 29 bytes

begin write($1D,' bytes')end.

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$1D is a hexadecimal constant. I'm glad Pascal has something shorter than other languages!

answered Sep 28, 2018 at 13:44

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Thaufeki · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-28 23:19:44Z

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k (oK), 16 bytes

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($:4*4)," bytes"

String result of 4*4 and concatenate

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Superloach · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-30 02:47:03Z

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Chevron, 12 bytes

^n<<3*4
>^n

This is a fairly new language of my own creation - prototype interpreter, documentation, and example programs can be found at https://github.com/superloach/chevron.

Explanation:

^n<<3*4 - calculate 3*4, store as n
>^n - output n
nothing else - implicit exit

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a stone arachnid · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-30 03:59:20Z

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Deadfish~, 59 bytes

iisioiiiioii{ii}icii{iii}iic{ii}iiicdddddc{d}dddddc{i}iiiic

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Output your Score!

184 Answers 184

SmileBASIC, 12 bytes

jamal, 14 characters

Fortran (GFortran), 24 bytes

PowerShell, 14 bytes

TeX, 16 bytes

Ruby, 15 bytes

Foo, 13 bytes

Explanation

14 bytes

Pyth, 11 bytes

Python 2, 18 17 bytes

Rust, 34 bytes

C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 20 bytes

Excel, 13 bytes

T-SQL, 32 bytes

Javascript,26 bytes

Octave, 42 bytes

Explanation:

MySQL, 28 bytes

Tcl, 23 bytes

Tcl, 23 bytes

Husk, 8 bytes

Explanation

Befunge-98 (FBBI), 12 bytes

Attache, 19 bytes

Explanation

Pepe, 74 bytes

Python (REPL), 16 bytes

Output :

vim, 12 bytes

Cubix, 23 bytes

LOLCODE, 66 bytes

Output

MBASIC, 17 bytes

Pascal (FPC), 29 bytes

k (oK), 16 bytes

Chevron, 12 bytes

Explanation:

Deadfish~, 59 bytes

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