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14 questions linked to/from Encode a program with the fewest distinct characters possible
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Generate and print the first 20 Fibonacci numbers with the least unique characters [duplicate]
As the title suggests, my task is fairly straightforward:
Write a program in your language of choice that will print out the first 20 Fibonacci numbers using the least unique characters.
For example ...
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What is the minimum set of characters with which you can write any valid python program? [duplicate]
The proof of the set of characters is that there is a translator which takes any ascii python program as input and produces a limited character set version of the program. The limited character set ...
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FizzBuzz: Least unique bytes [duplicate]
Introduction:
Although it seems challenges scored by least unique characters have been attempted, there are few which were well-received. I think it's a potentially interesting scoring criterion, as ...
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Conway's Game of Life with smallest *set* of source characters [duplicate]
The goal of this challenge is to write a program that will simulate a single round of Conway's Game of Life on an existing grid.
Input format:
Input will be read from stdin. The input will consist of ...
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Shrink your language's character set [duplicate]
We often get restricted-source questions here on PPCG that favour submitting solutions using only a subset of characters (sufficiently so that there's a tag printable-ascii that identifies a ...
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Fewest (distinct) characters for Turing Completeness
Summary:
For any given language, what is the smallest amount of unique characters for your language to be Turing-Complete?
Challenge:
For any language of your choice, find the smallest subset of ...
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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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Output the text "Code Bowling"
Code-Bowling
You've been hired by Brunswick Bowling to create a simple program to output the text Code Bowling on their monitors. This company is worth a pretty ...
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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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What's the shortest contiguous subset of ASCII you need to output the rest?
The printable ASCII characters (hex codes 20 to 7E) in order are:
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Source Code Byte Frequency
Source Code Byte Frequency
Write a program that get a single byte character as an input and prints the frequency of that byte in the program's source code as an output.
Examples:
Assuming my program ...
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JSF**k with only 5 symbols?
This is not a challenge but a question, I figured it was on topic because of
Non-challenge questions that are related to solving programming puzzles or a particular type of challenge are also on ...
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Writing erasable code
My phone number (which I will not be sharing here) has a neat property where there is a two digit number, which when iteratively removed from my phone number will eventually remove all the digits. ...
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Make a GUI window in any language using minimum "different characters" [closed]
I want you to make a gui window like this:
* if you're thinking, the [quit] button closes the window
in any language using minimum "different" characters..
AND remember that the gui window ...
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