Linked Questions
19 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in MATLAB
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1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz
Introduction
In our recent effort to collect catalogues of shortest solutions for standard programming exercises, here is PPCG's first ever vanilla FizzBuzz challenge. If you wish to see other ...
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How high can you count?
Challenge:
Your task is to write as many programs / functions / snippets as you can, where each one outputs / prints / returns an integer. The first program must output the integer ...
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GO OUT AND VOTE
Today is November 8th, 2016, Election Day in the United States of America.
If you are a U.S. citizen eligible to vote, then go out and vote if you haven't already before answering this challenge. Do ...
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StringgnirtSStringgnirtSStringgnirtS
Here is a relatively simple challenge for you.
Given a string of length N, output the string forwards, then backwards, then forwards, then backwards... etc. N times. For example, if your input was
<...
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Boys and girls are excited to see Fifty Shades of Grey on the silver screen, we just want to code without being bothered, so here's a challenge to pick our brain.
You have to:
Print on the screen ...
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Pointlessly make your way down the alphabet
Disclaimer: This challenge inspired by me spending the morning debugging recursive functions, which have been frying my brain a little.
Here's an example of recursion, from a letter, we keep going to ...
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Happy Birthday V!
Thanks to @KritixiLithos for helping me out with this challenge!
V is a programming language that I wrote so that I could use and extend vim for code-golf challenges. The very first commit was on ...
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418: I'm a teapot
As we all should know, there's a HTTP status code 418: I'm a teapot.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use your creativitea and write the smallest possible server that responds with ...
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Tell me my screen resolution!
Output the device's screen resolution in the specific format of [width]x[height](without the brackets). For example, an output could be ...
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Weapons of Math Instruction
Last time when I tried to come up with something easy that wasn't a duplicate, it ended up being way too hard.. So hopefully this time it's indeed something newcomers can try as well.
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An ...
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Press any key to continue
Your task is to create a program that will display the following text, wait for the user to press a key (it is okay to ignore keys like ctrl, ...
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Lined up circle, n points
Draw lines between every pair of distinct points for n points arranged in a circle, producing something like the below result. Shortest code (in bytes) wins! Your ...
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Print every Fool's Mate
In chess, the Fool's Mate is the fastest possible way to reach checkmate. It is reached with Black's second move. In chess notation, one possible sequence of moves that achieves Fool's Mate is ...
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Tips for golfing in MATL
MATL is a golfing language created by Luis Mendo. MATL has proven to be highly competitive, often beating submissions in other golfing languages such as Pyth, CJam and Jelly.
What are some useful ...
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Tips for golfing in Octave
What general tips do you have for golfing in Octave? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Octave (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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