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Print X without X (cop's thread)

This is the cop's thread of a cops-and-robbers challenge. You can view the robber's thread here A pretty common beginner style question is to print some string, but there's a catch! You need to do it ...
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DISARM THE B.O.M.B.!

You have been hired for your tech knowledge as a Secret Agent's sidekick to ensure that the good guy can get his job done and the world can be saved. This is your last mission before retiring with a ...
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Eww, those bytes are gross

Write a program or function that, when given a string, filters out as many distinct bytes as it can and returns the cleaned string. However, since your program hates them, none of these bytes can be ...
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Guess my password (cops' thread)

Inspired by this challenge, which got closed. This is meant to be an easier, but no less interesting version of that. This is the cops thread of a cops-and-robbers challenge. For the robbers thread, ...
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Replace twos with threes

Given a positive integer n write some code to take its prime factorization and replace all of its factors of 2 with 3. For ...
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Turing-Complete Language Interpreter

A challenge I thought that would be very cool is to make an interpreter for a Turing-complete language of your choosing. The rules are simple: You may use any language to create this interpreter ...
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Quickly! Group together!

As of 27/12/20, the challenge is over as no new answers were posted on the 26th. With an astounding 55 points (and 21 answers), the winner is pppery! A quick shout out to the top 5 scorers as well: ...
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Print a string in as few distinct characters as possible

The task is simple: print The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog using as few distinct characters in your source code as possible. ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World

Create a program that outputs Hello, World! The winner is the source code that is the biggest, subject to the constraint that it is irreducible For this challenge,...
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Guess my password (robbers' thread)

Inspired by this challenge, which got closed. This is meant to be an easier, but no less interesting version of that. This is the robbers thread of a cops-and-robbers challenge. For the cops thread, ...
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Tips for restricted source in Python

Just like code-golf, restricted-source pushes one to exploit quirks and hidden features of the Python language. We already have a place to collect all these tips for code-golf, those for restricted-...
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R.E.P.A.I.R. T.H.E. K.E.Y.B.O.A.R.D

Sequel of this AWESOME challenge You, a genius tech prodigy detective, have successfully disarmed the bomb and want to break into the computer. The police found the password ...
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Minimal maximum byte for Turing Completeness

Summary We already have a challenge for the minimal number of characters for Turing completeness. But what about the minimal maximum byte? Challenge For a language of your choice, find a subset of ...
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Find a Fixed Point

Given an integer \$x_1\$ and some black box function \$f: ℤ → ℤ\$ find a fixed point of \$f\$ in the sequence defined by \$x_{k+1} := f(x_k)\$. Details A value \$x\$ is said to be a fixed point of \$...
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Smallest subset of characters required for Turing Completeness

In Fewest (distinct) characters for Turing Completeness, the goal is to find the minimum number of characters which make a language Turing Complete...in other words, allow it to do any computation ...
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