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"Hello, World!"

So... uh... this is a bit embarrassing. But we don't have a plain "Hello, World!" challenge yet (despite having 35 variants tagged with hello-world, and counting). While this is not the most ...
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185 answers
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Evolution of "Hello World!"

This contest is officially over, the winner is jimmy23013. Congratulations! The challenge is to make a program that prints Hello World! to stdout. The catch is that ...
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153 answers
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Evolution of OEIS

In this challenge, the goal is to recreate the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences one sequence at a time. Similar to the Evolution of Hello World, each answer depends on a previous answer. ...
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Print X without X (robber's thread)

This is the robber's thread of a cops-and-robbers challenge. You can view the cop's thread here A pretty common beginner style question is to print some string, but, there's a catch!, you need to do ...
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Count the number of ones in an unsigned 16-bit integer

Write some statement(s) which will count the number of ones in an unsigned sixteen-bit integer. For example, if the input is 1337, then the result is ...
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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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25 votes
42 answers
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Answer-Chaining Fibonacci

(Inspired by ASCII's 95 Characters...95 Movie Quotes) The Challenge Given input n, output the nth Fibonacci number. You can ...
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Prolific Perfect Pangram Programs Pertaining to Printable ASCII

Updates: Time limit removed. You must be able to describe output - see new rule. A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet at least once, such as: The quick brown fox jumps over ...
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Golfing Emoticons

Introduction Your challenge today (inspired by this challenge) is to write a number of snippets, functions or full programs each that output various ascii emoticons, without reusing characters. ...
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5 answers
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RadioASCII Elements: Output the elements of the periodic table while slowly losing characters

Here is a list of the 118 (current) elements of the periodic table (in a collapsed Stack Snippet for your convenience): ...
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Decompose a number with bit-xor without the digits 0, 3, 7

Challenge Write a function or program which takes a positive decimal number, call it A, and output two positive numbers, B and C, such that: A == B bitxor C B and C must not contain any of the ...
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Pi language interpreter

Introduction From Esolangs.org : Pi is based on the brainfuck language and uses the same instructions as it. Pi works by calculating pi digits and introducing errors in some random digits of ...
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