Questions tagged [code-golf]
Code-golf is a competition to solve a particular problem in the fewest bytes of source code. If you want to score by characters instead of bytes, please state this explicitly in the challenge. If source code length is not the primary scoring criterion, consider using another tag instead.
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WTF.js Obfuscator
Background
One of the commonly meme'd aspects of javascript is its incredibly loose type coercion that allows for +!![]+[+[]] == '10' this technique can also be ...
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Shift right by half a bit
The challenge is to implement a program or function (subsequently referred to as "program") that takes a nonnegative integer \$n\$ as input and returns \$n\over\sqrt{2}\$ (the input divided by the ...
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How predictable is popular music?
The McGill Billboard Project annotates various audio features of songs from a random sample of the Billboard charts. I scraped this data to produce the following file of chord progressions:
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Bucket and Minimize
The challenge - given a numeric list L and an integer N as inputs, write a function that:
finds the bucket sizes for L such that it is split into N whole buckets of equal or near-equal size, and
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Internal Truth Machine
It's a normal truth machine but instead of taking input, it uses the first character of the program. Thus, internal.
The 0 and 1 are plain characters, i.e. ASCII code 0x30 and 0x31 respectively.
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What is the shortest brainfuck quine? [duplicate]
(Apart from the empty program of course)
The shortest I could find was this 410 byte beauty:
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What's my telephone number?
Introduction
The telephone numbers or involution numbers are a sequence of integers that count the ways \$n\$ telephone lines can be connected to each other, where each line can be connected to at ...
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Bootstrap your language [closed]
Interpret language X in language X with as little code as possible. Your implementation of language X must be able to interpret on your implementation of language X, and your implementation of ...
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Cutting Sequence for N dimensions
Inputs:
The program or function should take 2 vector-like (e.g. a list of numbers) O and V of the same number of dimensions, and a number T (all floating-point numbers or similar)
Constraints:
T >=...
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Smallest number such that concatenation is a square
Challenge
Write a program or function that takes a number \$n\$ and returns the smallest \$k\$ such that concatenation \$n'k\$ is a square. This sequence is described by A071176 on the OEIS.
I/O ...
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Are the beams above or below the notes?
In musical notation, groups of notes shorter than one beat are joined together by a line at the bottom called a beam. Here are a few bars of music with the beams highlighted:
(Taken from Second Suite ...
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Move my liquid to make me equal
You are given 4 positive integers: volume of the first container (v1), volume of the second container (v2), volume of the liquid ...
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Spotify Shuffle (music playlist shuffle algorithm)
Background
Perfect shuffle algorithms like Fisher-Yates shuffle don't produce great results when it comes to music playlist shuffling, because it often produces clusters of songs from the same album. ...
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Keta Bracket Autocompletion
Special thanks to Bubbler and AdmBorkBork for supplying feedback about this challenge
Keta (Keyboard tacit — clever naming, I know!) is a golfing language I’ve been working on recently. One of it’s ...
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99 ways to say “I love you”
Inspired by this blog post.
Write a program that outputs 99 distinct programs (in the same language) that output the string I love you.
How the programs are ...
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Decomposition of a matrix in \$ SL_2(\mathbb{Z}) \$
Background
The special linear group \$ SL_2(\mathbb{Z}) \$ is a multiplicative group of \$ 2 \times 2 \$ matrices whose elements are integers and determinant is 1.
It is known that every member of \$...
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Print out execution time of program [closed]
Challenge
Write a complete program that prints out the time it took to execute a certain part of itself. That part must include a process whose total number of operations (and therefore execution ...
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Compositional inverse of a power series [duplicate]
If \$f(x) = x + \sum_{i>1} a_ix^i\$ and \$g(x)=x+\sum_{i>1}b_ix^i\$ then there is a composite power series \$f(g(x))\$ also of this form. Given a power series \$f\$ the goal is to find a ...
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Largest monetary amount impossible to make with two types of coin
Suppose we have two different types of coin which are worth relatively prime positive integer amounts. In this case, it is possible to make change for all but finitely many quantities. Your job is to ...
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Cartesian LCM of two arrays
Given two nonempty arrays of natural numbers \$a\$ and \$b\$, return the shortest nonempty array of pairs of natural numbers \$q\$ such that the sequence of first elements of \$q\$ consists of a whole ...
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Convert a 32 bit binary IPv4 address to its quad-dotted notation
Challenge
Write a program or function that converts a 32 bit binary number to its quad-dotted decimal notation (often used for representing IPv4)
Quad-dotted decimal
A quad-dotted decimal is formed ...
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Recreate a simplified version of the card game L.L.A.M.A
In LLAMA, you want to dump cards from your hand as quickly as you can, but you might not be able to play what you want.
Each player starts a round with six cards in hand; the deck consists of llama ...
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How many ACUs do I have?
Posted from sandbox
The Intro
What is an ACU? This challenge is based on the concept of money and since this is an international community, we all use different currencies, so in keeping with our ...
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Dissect a word and arrange all its letters in alphabetical order
Question
Write a program to accept one string on the console only and print back its letters arranged in alphabetical order. The string must only have the following characters:
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Signpost reading [closed]
Challenge source:
My: https://testovac.ksp.sk/tasks/ls18-signpost/download/ dated 11. 7. 2016
SPOJ: https://www.spoj.com/problems/SIGNPOST/ dated 2018-03-22
Challenge definition == Example input/...
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What's the Mayan date?
Just over seven years ago, everybody suddenly stopped talking about the Maya people. It is time to rectify that!
For clarification, I am talking about the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar. Your ...
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Make a random drum loop
Do randomly generated drum loops sound good?
A drum loop is a \$5\times 32\$ matrix \$A\$ of \$1\$s and \$0\$s such that
\$A_{1,1}=A_{1,17}=A_{2,9}=A_{2,25}=1\$,
for each \$i\$, the \$i\$th row has ...
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Drum fill generator
Create a program that generates a drum fill. Your program will output a pattern of L (left hand hits), 'R' (right hand hits), and ...
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Shortest Solution in Python 3 for Caught Speeding - CodingBat
I am trying to find the shortest code in python 3, to solve this problem:
You are driving a little too fast, and a police officer stops you.
Write code to take two integer inputs, first one ...
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Is this quadrilateral tangential?
Related: Is this quadrilateral cyclic?
Background
A tangential quadrilateral is a quadrilateral which has an incircle:
Examples include any square, rhombus, or a kite-like shape. Rectangles or ...
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Write a program that sees the New Year in itself
Write the smallest program that maps strings injectively to outputs and maps itself to 2020.
To be clear, your program \$p\$ must have the following properties:
every possible input string \$s\$ has ...
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When is Hannukah?
Input
The input will be a year between 1583 and 2239. We just want to know when Hannukah was or will be in that year. This is information used by millions of people every year and put in calendars ...
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Generate a Nine-Ball Pool rack
Introduction
Nine-Ball is a popular pool game played casually and as a competitive sport.
There is one of each numbered ball, with the numbers 1 to 9.
The game starts with all 9 of the balls in a ...
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Partial tq interpreter
In this task you are expected to provide a list output given an input tq program. The tq programs will not contain whitespace inside them.
What is tq, in the first place?
tq is a lazy-evaluated ...
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Partitioning Digits into Distinct Integers
Given a sequence of base-10 digits, output the longest list of integers that contains all the digits exactly once, in the order in which they appeared in the input, without repeating any integers.
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Integer Keys and Duplicates
Given a non-empty list/vector of positive integers, write a function to check the following conditions in as few bytes as possible.
Take the first integer (the key, or k1) and check that the next k1 ...
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Shorten String as Much as Possible [closed]
Introduction
In a list of strings, there is a certain length you can shorten strings to before they become indistinguishable. This is a pretty bad explanation, so here is an example.
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Random spanning tree of a rectangular grid
Significantly harder version of Spanning tree of a rectangular grid.
Background
A spanning tree (Wikipedia) of an undirected graph is a subgraph that is a tree which includes all of the vertices of ...
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Random triple with uniform marginals
Output a random triple \$(x,y,z)\$ of real numbers such that
\$x+y+z=\frac{3}{2}\$
Each of \$x,y,z\$, taken alone, is uniformly distributed from \$0\$ to \$1\$.
Please explain in your answer what ...
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Determine if a number is less than another [closed]
Introduction
Your job is to write a function or program that detects if a number a is less than a number b.
But... You are not ...
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Swaps to Sort an Array
You are given an array \$A\$, which may contain duplicate elements. In each swap, you may swap the value of any two indices \$i, j\$ (i.e. switch the values of \$A_i\$ and \$A_j\$). What is the least ...
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How Shuffled is this Sequence?
Given a sequence \$S\$ with length \$n\$ of exactly one each of whole numbers from \$1\$ to \$n\$, your task is to return a number \$\sigma\$ indicating how shuffled it is.
Definition of shuffledness
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CahartcreS awppnig (Character Swapping)
Intro/Background
I was looking at "You Had One Job" pictures lately, and noticed an old favourite of mine:
And I said to myself: "I need a program that can generate text like that".
So I devised a ...
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Maximal 2-distance Sets
In the plane (\$\mathbb R^2\$) we can have at most five distinct points such that the distances from each point to every other point (except itself) can assume at most two distinct values.
An example ...
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.-…--..---.-…--… the red-nosed reindeer
Can you recover a sequence of letters from a sequence of dots and dashes? In Morse code, x is represented by -..-, but without ...
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Is this ordinal prime?
You are given an countable ordinal \$1 < r < \varepsilon_0\$. Determine whether or not it is prime. If not, provide exactly two ordinals \$r_0, r_1 < r\$ such that \$r_0r_1 = r\$, following ...
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Minified Intcode Computer
As the trip through the solar system on your way to rescue Santa gets a little droll, so perhaps some optimizations to your Intcode Computer are in order. Namely, making it as small as possible ...
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Reversing and Shifting
Sandbox
Adapted from exercise 8 of 100 little Keg exercises
String manipulation is a very important part of any programming language. Consequently, that is what this challenge is about.
The ...
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Convert Character Substrings to Numeric
I often have to take character data and categorize it numerically at work. A common thing I do is to take character type variables and convert them to numeric type characters, keeping same categories ...
