Linked Questions
14 questions linked to/from Output with the same length as the code
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Ah, why is there a bug in my program?
This challenge is inspired by @LuisMendo's MATL answer to my "binary multiples" challenge.
Task
Pick a code-golf challenge that is open and that has been posted before this one; let me call it the "...
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Output with the same length always
With challenges like Output with the same length as the code and Create output twice the length of the code, I thought of a separate, but similar challenge.
The task is to produce an output. It can ...
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Make a program that prints its own size [closed]
Challenge: Create a program that prints out the size of its own source code file.
For example, a 35 bytes size of program must print out 35. Pre-calculation is not valid. What I mean by pre-...
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Build a golfing language with me
A lot of PPCG users helped with the creation of this challenge, both in chat and the Sandbox, specifically Martin Ender, AdmBorkBork, Emigna and user202729
Our community has found it necessary to ...
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The NX source-length problem [duplicate]
On PPCG, we have had lots of challenges where the length of your output is dependent on the length of your source code. For the purposes of this challenge, we will call these Source-length problems. ...
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Code point sum quine
All the quine challenges on this site are focused on byte count, or the characters themselves. This one is different. Your challenge is to write a program that produces output which has a code point ...
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Shortest Error Message
Challenge
Write the shortest program that, when compiled or executed, produces a fatal error message smaller than the program itself. The error message may not be generated by the program itself, ...
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Goodbye Cruel World!
Background
Hello golfers! I would like to learn all the programming languages! But I kinda have a short attention span... and copying all the Hello World examples gets boring... but I like fire! ^w^
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Print invisible text
Given a string as input, output a number of whitespace characters (0x0A and 0x20) equal to the length of the string.
For example, given the string Hello, World! ...
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Tips for golfing in ///
What general tips do you have for golfing in ///? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to /// (e.g. "remove unnecessary ...
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Notcalc (Calculate the wrong answer)
Goal:
Given two natural numbers (integers from 0 to infinity), output a number that is not the sum of those numbers, but is a natural number.
Example solutions (TI-Basic):
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Implement a Truth-Machine
A truth-machine (credits goes to this guy for coming up with it) is a very simple program designed to demonstrate the I/O and control flow of a language. Here's what a truth-machine does:
Gets a ...
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Create output twice the length of the code
The Challenge
Write a complete program that writes twice as many bytes to standard output as the length of the program.
Rules
The program must write ASCII characters to the standard output.
The ...
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Output code-sized Lorem Ipsum [closed]
Output the same length of Lorem ipsum your code is!
Rules:
Code can't be identical to output
No compression libraries
Shortest program in two weeks wins
No network usage, file reading and other ...
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