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112 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in C
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Simple cat program
One of the most common standard tasks (especially when showcasing esoteric programming languages) is to implement a "cat program": read all of STDIN and print it to STDOUT. While this is ...
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Is this even or odd?
Note: There is not been a vanilla parity test challenge yet (There is a C/C++ one but that disallows the ability to use languages other than C/C++, and other non-vanilla ones are mostly closed too), ...
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Find the Factorial!
Create the shortest program or function that finds the factorial of a non-negative integer.
The factorial, represented with ! is defined as such
$$n!:=\begin{...
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Tips for golfing in JavaScript
What general tips do you have for golfing in JavaScript? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to JavaScript (e.g. "remove ...
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Sum of all integers from 1 to n
I'm honestly surprised that this hasn't been done already. If you can find an existing thread, by all means mark this as a duplicate or let me know.
Input
Your input is in the form of any positive ...
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Determine whether strings are anagrams
Challenge
Given two strings, work out if they both have exactly the same characters in them.
Example
Input
word, wrdo
This returns true because they are the ...
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Print 0 to 100 without 1-9 characters
Print integers 0 to 100 (inclusive) without using characters 123456789 in your code.
Separator of numbers can be comma or white space (by default <blank>, <...
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The alphabet in programming languages
Our task is to, for each letter of the (English) alphabet, write a program that prints the alphabet, in a language whose name starts with that letter.
Input: none
Output:
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Draw an asterisk triangle
Inspired by a task for Programming 101, here's a challenge that hopefully isn't too easy (or a duplicate).
Input:
A positive integer n >= 1.
Output:
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Make a ;# interpreter
I recently created a new language called ;# (pronounced "Semicolon Hash") which only has two commands:
; add one to ...
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Reverse stdin and place on stdout
Requirements:
Take an input on stdin including new lines / carriage returns of unlimited length (only bounded by system memory; that is, there is no inherent limit in the program.)
Output the reverse ...
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Print/Output the L-phabet
Inspired by George Gibson's Print a Tabula Recta.
You are to print/output this exact text:
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Is this number evil?
Introduction
In number theory, a number is considered evil if there are an even number of 1's in its binary representation. In today's challenge, you will be identifying whether or not a given number ...
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Full Width Text
Full width text is text that has a space after every character, including the last one. For instance, the first sentence of this question becomes:
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