Linked Questions
13 questions linked to/from Notcalc (Calculate the wrong answer)
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Tips for golfing in Python
What general tips do you have for golfing in Python? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Python (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Output with the same length as the code
In this challenge, you should write a program or function which takes no input and prints or returns a string with the same number of bytes as the program itself. There are a few rules:
You may only ...
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Divisibility test
Task
Given two strictly positive integers n and d as input, determine whether n is evenly divisible by d, i.e., if there exists an integer q such that n = qd.
You ...
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Compute the Median
Challenge
Given a nonempty list of real numbers, compute its median.
Definitions
The median is computed as follows: First sort the list,
if the number of entries is odd, the median is the value in ...
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Print the Oscars Best Picture Winner
This challenge is in tribute to the winner of Best Picture at the Oscars 2017, La La Land Moonlight!
Your challenge is to print the text La La Land pause one second, then change the text to show
La ...
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Tips for golfing in R
I'm looking for tips for golfing in the R statistical language. R is perhaps an unconventional choice for Golf. However, it does certain things very compactly (sequences, randomness, vectors, and ...
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Very Simple Triangles
Write a program or function that takes in a positive integer (via stdin, command line, or function arg) and prints or returns a string of that many of these small triangles tiled together, alternating ...
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Write a Programming language of Unknown Completeness
Determining whether a Language is Turing Complete is very important when designing a language. It is a also a pretty difficult task for a lot of esoteric programming languages to begin with, but lets ...
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Robbers - square times square root
Task: Crack the scrambled code for multiplying the square root of an integer n by the square of it!
You must post a comment in the cops' thread with a link to your working source, mentioning clearly ...
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Find an Unrelated Number
Given 2 non-negative integers as input, output a non-negative integer that cannot be created through any mathematical operators on the 2 inputs.
For example, given inputs ...
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Closest 7-Distinct-Prime Product
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The OEIS entry A123321 lists the sequence of numbers that are the product of seven distinct primes. For brevity, we'll call this a 7DP number. The first few numbers and their corresponding ...
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Find the Fibonacci Kernel
You've probably heard of the Fibonacci numbers; they're pretty famous. Each number in the Fibonacci sequence is the sum of the last two in the sequence with the first and second numbers being 1. The ...
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Ghost in the shell [duplicate]
In honor to the 1995 classic Ghost In The Shell (who's live action remake was released today) I propose a challenge where you create a shell with a ghost in it.
The challenge:
Create a REPL shell ...