Average of your code

Question

Inspired by this

Task

Your task is to output the average character of your code.

What is an average character?

Say we have a string golf(). We then take the ASCII value of each separate symbol, so our string is 103 111 108 102 40 41, and calculate the average of those values, rounded to an integer. In our case the average is 505 / 6 = 84.1666... = rounded to 84. That value is printed out as an ASCII character, in our case T.

Rules

You must take no input and must not read the source code directly, while outputting the average character of its source code. Integers are rounded by function floor(x+0.5). Empty programs are not allowed. This is code-golf, so lowest byte count wins!

Answer 1

Batch, 7 bytes

@echo U

I used the average character calculator to calculate the average of @echo (with trailing space) and just appended the result, as that won't change the average.

Answer 2

ArnoldC, 59 bytes

IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "A"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

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Test the average

Mandatory answer in ArnoldC. New line characters have been added to the average as a single character of value 10.

Answer 3

PowerShell, 1 byte

0

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This will work with every single digit. It just gets echoed.

Answer 4

Vim, 2 bytes

ii

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Answer 5

vim, 3 bytes

Four versions; one for each of the "insert on the same line" commands: A, a, i, and I:

• A.<ESC>
• a><ESC>
• iB<ESC>
• I2<ESC>

<ESC> is 0x1b.

(We can shave off a byte if we're willing to terminate while still in insert mode.)

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Answer 6

Lenguage, 4 bytes

����

Is this the first time where a lenguage program is totally written?

brainfuck, 14 bytes

+[+++++>+<]>.�

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Forcefix average

Answer 7

Sandwich, 2 bytes

pp

Sandwich is comprised of opcodes. The first letter of each line is the opcode, and the rest of the line is the arguments.

The opcode for this code is p, which means print. The arguments are also p, which is passed to the opcode.

The result of this code is that it prints out p, AKA ASCII 112.

Since the code is 2 bytes long, simply using the same two characters will give the average of the entire code segment.

Answer 8

Plumber, 191 bytes

[]
]
]
...88 more ']'...
]
]
][[=

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Drops a packet down, which is incremented up to 92 and printed. 92 is the ASCII value for \.

Answer 9

perl -Mfeature=say, 6 bytes

say"P"

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I wrote a small program to find the program above:

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl

use 5.028;

use strict;
use warnings;
no  warnings 'syntax';

use experimental 'signatures';
use experimental 'lexical_subs';

for my $c (32 .. 127) {
    my $char = chr $c;
    my $s = qq [say"$char"];
    my $score = 0;
    $score += ord $_ for split // => $s;
    $score = int (.5 + $score / length ($s));
    if ($score == $c) {
        say $s;
    }
}

__END__

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Answer 10

AWK, 15 bytes

BEGIN{print"X"}

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Answer 11

Bash, 6 bytes

echo Y

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echo Z

works as well.

Just like my Perl solution, this was found using a brute force search.

Answer 12

7, 1 byte

3

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After the code cycles, 3 tries to output itself. However, 3 is an unnamed command, so it can't be directly outputted. Instead, it gets turned into 73, which is outputted. 7 specifies the output format as "the same as the input", so the 3 after it prints 3.

A more interesting solution:

7, 3 bytes (8 characters)

01116743

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This outputs 3 as a number.

Answer 13

naz, 8 bytes

8a9m7a1o

Short and sweet. Verify the average character here.

Explanation

8a9m7a # Set the register to a value of 79
1o     # Output once

Answer 14

JavaScript (Node.js), 16 bytes

console.log('U')

Here's how I brute-forced the solution:

const average = str => String.fromCharCode([...str]
  .reduce((total, char) => (total += char
    .charCodeAt(0)) || total, 0) / str.length);

for (let i = 0; i < 2 ** 16; i++) {
  const char = String.fromCharCode(i);
  const avg = average(`console.log('${char}')`);
  char == avg && console.log({ code: i, char, avg });
  // { i: 85, char: 'U', avg: 'U' }
}

Answer 15

99, 22 bytes

99 99 9
99 99 9
9 99
9m

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Answer 16

T-SQL, 8 bytes

PRINT'D'

DB Fiddle

Answer 17

Rust, 23 bytes

fn main(){print!("Q");}

Used modified Perl answer's script.

Answer 18

SimpleTemplate, 10 bytes

This is a simple code that outputs the average character itself:

{@echo"X"}

The average was calculated previously using JavaScript:

var code = '{@echo"X"}';

var sum = code.split('').reduce((a,_)=>a+_.charCodeAt(0), 0);

document.body.innerHTML += String.fromCharCode(sum/code.length);

To get the right character, I just used a random one, until I got one where the result was the same (in this case, "X").

The rules don't specify that the character can't be pre-calculated before. They only specify that you can't read the source code or that you can't take any input.

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SimpleTemplate, 1 byte

Just simply outputs the character average:

1

This generates a PHP echo (example below):

echo (<<<'DATA6229934543895a3c69912b6e6658160198d45280523b34711abdc124745'
1
DATA6229934543895a3c69912b6e6658160198d45280523b34711abdc124745
);

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You can try both versions on: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/36449dad6c5de136ae489bcbeaddd97a6a7124bc

You can change the line 1048 to test the desired code.

Answer 19

Python 3, 11 bytes

print('K')#

The average value is 75.09, which rounds to 75 - K.

Answer 20

PHP, 1 byte

A

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This will just output itself. Works with almost all of the printable ASCII characters.

Answer 21

Whitespace, 13 bytes

Outputs Data Link Escape (0x16)

I can't figure out how to put raw whitespace into a code block, so here you go:

[space][space][space][tab][space][tab][tab][space][lf]
[tab][lf]
[space][space]

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Explanation:

[space][space][space]           Push a number onto the stack
[tab][space][tab][tab][space]   Have that number be 22 (0x16)
[lf]                            End instruction
[tab][lf][space][space]         Output character from stack

Answer 22

Ada (GNAT), 53 bytes

procedure GNAT.IO.F is begin Put("M"); end GNAT.IO.F;

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Why not?

Answer 23

C (gcc), 15 bytes

A(){return 84;}

Average is T. Returns ASCII code.

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Answer 24

C - 18 chars

main(){puts("S");}

Answer 25

Scala, 10 bytes

print("N")

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Answer 26

PowerShell, 3 bytes

+$A

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(43+36+65)/3 == 144/3 == 48 == ASCII('0')

Answer 27

bitch, 2 bytes

/1

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Following up my COW answer with one in bitch . . . read nothing into that. Outputs 0 (average 48 exactly). / outputs the accumulator value (initialised to zero); 1 is a no-op here.

Answer 28

Rust, 5 bytes

||'R'

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Straightforward solution, just a closure that implements Fn() -> char.

Answer 29

1+ (with NOP), 3 bytes

'1:

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1+ (without NOP), 4 bytes

11+:

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Answer 30

MAWP v1.1, 6 bytes

33W/:.

I tried a different approach from Dion's answer.

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