Linked Questions
11 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in Swift
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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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Print random integers until 0
You are to write a program which generates random integers between \$0\$ and \$99\$ inclusive, outputting each integer in turn, until \$0\$ is generated. You may choose which single-order random ...
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Number to Binary
It seems we've managed to go all this time without a plain vanilla Number-To-Binary challenge! Whilst this will inevitably be only one element in many languages, it should put a few esolangs through ...
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Code Golf: Your own pet ASCII snake
So, I wrote myself a one-liner which printed out a snake on the console. It's a bit of fun, and I wondered how I might condense my code...
Here's a (short) example output:
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Compare two numbers given as strings
I have a problem at work. I need to compare two numbers that come as strings from two different databases. The numbers may come with leading zeroes and/or leading/trailing spaces. So I may have ...
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Duck, Duck, Josephus
Given an Integer array:
Start from the first number
Jump forward n positions where n is the value of the current position
Delete the current position, making what was the next position the current ...
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Find the odd one out
Challenge
The goal of this challenge is to generate and output a \$16 \times 32\$ (height \$\times\$ width) grid where all cells contain a decoy
character, except for a random single cell that ...
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The (Easy) Road to Code
Input:
An integer \$n\$, which is guaranteed to be \$\ge3\$.
An integer \$d\$, which is one of \$[-1,0,1]\$.
Output:
A road of size \$n\$, which will be in a north-west direction if \$d=-1\$; a ...
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Generate a password
It is very hard to remember my password, so I came up with a way to generate a password.
The way I generate my password is from a word or a sentence, following these steps:
Start from left to right
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Hexadecimal to Binary
Convert a hexadecimal number (of any size) into a binary number.
Input
A POSITIVE hexadecimal number with a 0x in the beginning. A valid input will always match the ...
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Return the highest possible placement value based on the input
Introduction
The challenge itself was something I came across and had to try and figure out for a personal of project of mine. I ended up branching out and asking family members if they could provide ...
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