229 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in Python
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Cheat at Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

When playing Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, your robot reflexes let you see your opponent's throw before they make it. You just need to choose a throw that beats theirs, in as few bytes as possible ...
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Letters associated with prime numbers

If we assign each letter a respective integer, starting from 1, then a is 1, b is 2, c is 3, and so on. After z, the letters loop back around, but with a in front (aa, ab, ac). It then goes to ba, bb, ...
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Make a haystack (with a needle)

(Essentially the inverse of Find the needle in the haystack) Given two tuples, (w, h) and (x, y), generate a haystack composed ...
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Duck, duck, gone!

Here is the (quite scary) Five little ducks song(it is not long): ...
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Write a function that returns an iterable object of all valid points 4-directionally adjacent to (x, y)

A very common need in algorithms classes and computer science in general is to iterate 4-directionally over a grid or matrix (such as in BFS or DFS). This seems to often result in a lot of clunky and ...
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Draw the ☣ (Biohazard Symbol)

Draw the Biohazard symbol in an arbitrary colour on a distinctly coloured background. The specific proportions were published in the June 27th 1974 issue of the Federal Register of the US Government. ...
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Calculate Landau's function

Landau's function $g(n)$ (OEIS A000793) gives the maximum order of an element of the symmetric group $S_n$. Here, the order of a permutation $\pi$ is the smallest positive integer $k$ such ...
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Bot Problem.How to solve this problem in c? [closed]

Programming problem: In BotLand, Robots can understand all words of any combination of letters and letters with leading or trailing (not both) numeric value. Given a word W (string of alphanumeric). ...
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Nothing like a good ol' game of ModTen

Disclaimer: ModTen is a fictional card game which was created for the sole purpose of this challenge. The rules of ModTen ModTen is played with a standard 52-card deck. Because the full rules are ...
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How much code would a codegolf golf if a codegolf could golf code?

Write a function or program that takes two words as input and outputs variants of the popular English tongue-twister "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?". The ...
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Generate Brainfuck for the numbers 1–255

Write a program that, for the numbers 1 through 255, prints out BF code that will produce the given number in some byte of the array, plus a newline. For example, the first four lines of the output ...
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A quine of sorts

Given a string x, output the characters in x sorted according to the order of appearance in your source code. Examples ...
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Nth term of Van Eck Sequence

Output the Nth term of the Van Eck Sequence. Van Eck Sequence is defined as: Starts with 0. If the last term is the first occurrence of that term the next term is 0. If the last term has occurred ...
disclaimer: I'm not aware of any non-bruteforce solutions A Graeco-Latin square is, for two sets of same length $n$, a $n \times n$ arrangement of cells, each containing a unique (across the ...