Questions tagged [counting]
For challenges regarding counting the number of occurrences of some characteristic.
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Covering a Skyline with brush strokes
Given a non-negative integer skyline height list, answer how many uninterrupted 1-unit-high horizontal brush strokes are needed to cover it.
[1,3,2,1,2,1,5,3,3,4,2]...
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Count the score of a Code Golf code [duplicate]
My challenge is to make a Java method(s) that is given a String (another code in Java), removes any unnecessary characters, counts and returns the score, and displays the cleaned-up code in a way that ...
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How fast am I vrooooming?
Introduction
My car speedometer was hacked! Instead of showing me how fast i'm driving, it just shows: "Vroooom!" Please help me know how fast i'm going.
Challenge
Take a string as input, and check ...
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Count cyclically self-describing lists
Cyclically self-describing lists
A list \$L\$ of positive integers is cyclically self-describing, if the following conditions hold.
\$L\$ is nonempty.
The first and last elements of \$L\$ are ...
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Recursively count lines of code, excluding empty lines and comments
Requirement: Write a program (in any language) that counts the number of lines of code in files matching *.sh in the directory tree starting from the directory that ...
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Longest Repeating Subsequence of a Single Digit
Challenge:
Given a positive integer, output the longest single-digit subsequence that occurs at least twice, AND has boundaries of another digit (or the start/end of the integer).
An example:
Input:...
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Saddle points in a matrix
A matrix can be thought of as the altitudes of a surface in 3D space.
Consider the 8 neighbours (orthogonal and diagonal) of a cell as a cyclic sequence in clockwise (or anticlockwise) order. Some ...
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How long is this string?
It's strange this question hasn't been asked yet, so here it is:
Calculate the length of a string given through STDIN
Rules
As said, your string will be given through STDIN, not via command line ...
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Assign Airliner Seats
Inspired by last week's APL lesson.
Given an uppercase 2D seat map and a 1D list of customers, return the seat map and the customer list but modified as follows (to indicate occupied seats and seated ...
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Alphabet Histogram
Given an input sentence consisting of one or more words [a-z]+ and zero or more spaces , output an ASCII-art histogram (bar ...
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Count the Matchsticks
Most people here are familiar with seven segment displays, which are also used in matchstick puzzles. Below are the digits 0 through ...
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Count stacking sequences [duplicate]
Given a list of stack heights, calculate the number of ways those heights could have been arrived at by stacking blocks one at a time. Shortest code wins.
Test cases:
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Count edits accounting for grace period
When you edit a post on SE, any further edits within a 5-minute grace period are merged into it. Given a list of times you edit a post, count the edits not in a grace period.
Say you edit at minutes <...
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Plus Primes vs Minus Primes
Most of us know...
that all primes p>3 are of the form
But, how many are the Plus Primes (6n+1) and how many are the ...
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Sequence Without Sevens [duplicate]
This challenge is based on a drinking game. I advise against alcohol consumption while programming.
In this game, the players count up in turns: the first player says ...
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Count forth and back then double up
Let's count...
Count up to 2 and back to 1
Count up to 4 and back to 1
Count up to 6 and back to 1
... ok you got it...
put all these together and you'll get the following sequence
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Number Lockers!
Given a positive integer < 100 (from 1 to 99, including 1 and 99), output that many lockers.
A locker is defined as the following:
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How much reputation does a steam user have? [closed]
Introduction
For those not familiar with steam - or at least this particular aspect:
Often on peoples' profiles, people leave comments saying either "+rep _____" or "-rep _____". These are an ...
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Count how many months are having a full 31 days by counting knuckles
How many of you that still use your own knuckle to determine whether a month is having a full 31 days or less?
You job is to write a program to count how many months, in a month range, are having a ...
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Count # of Cookie Chocolate Chips
Note: this is my first post here.
The Challenge
The challenge is to count the number of chocolate chips in a cookie. A cookie in this case is a circle with dots (the chips) in it. Given any square ...
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GET your dubs together
On 4chan, a popular game is get. Every post on the site gets a sequential post ID. Since you can't influence or determine them, people try to guess (at least a part of) their own post number, usually ...
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How Many Holes?
Challenge
Given a graphical input of a shape, determine how many holes there are in it.
Not Duplicate
This question was marked as a possible duplicate of Count Islands. I believe this challenge is ...
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How great is your land?
In this challenge, you'll calculate how great your land is.
Write a program or function that calculates the size of your land, given a wall you have built. You're given a non-empty input string ...
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Round the string
Some decimal numbers cannot be precisely represented as binary floats due to the internal representation of the binary floats. For example: rounding 14.225 to two decimal digits does not result in 14....
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How much do I have to write?
Writing out numbers is among the Hello worlds of programming, often the numbers 1-10.
I want to write out many numbers! Many, Many numbers. But how many numbers do I have to write?
Task
Given an ...
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Find the frequency of triplets in a phrase
For context, this problem is based on a old chat-bot project I did.
Problem:
Given a string of words containing any of the characters:
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Cantor's unspeakable numbers
An unspeakable number is a number which is divisible by seven or has seven as one of its digits. A children game is to count skipping unspeakable numbers
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Find the “Recursive Size” of a List
Inspired by Find the “unwrapped size” of a list.
Define the Recursive Size, RS, of a list containing no lists as its length (number of items contained) and the ...
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Find the “unwrapped size” of a list
Let's define the "unwrapped size" function u of a nested list l (containing only lists) by the following rules:
If ...
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Count trailing truths
Inspired by, and in memory of, my dear friend and colleague,
Dan Baronet, 1956 – 2016. R.I.P.
He found the shortest possible APL solution to this task:
Task
Given a Boolean list, count the number ...
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Count down from “Infinity”
Seems like an impossible task right? Well, it's actually not that hard. If we write the word Infinity as 8-bit binary ASCII code, we'll get:
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A penny saved is a penny
...counted!
You will pass your program a variable which represents a quantity of money in dollars and/or cents and an array of coin values. Your challenge is to output the number of possible ...
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Get dimension of a list [duplicate]
Find out the dimension of a simple nested list:
[] -> 1
[[]] -> 2
[[[]]] -> 3
...
List taken as input, dimension as output.
No counting length of ...
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Checkmate (aka the urinal problem)
My Precalc teacher has one of his favorite problems that he made up (or more likely stole inspired by xkcd) that involves a row of n urinals. "Checkmate" is a ...
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How long is a Welsh word?
Write a program or function which receives as input a string representing a Welsh word (UTF-8 unless otherwise specified by you).
The following are all single letters in Welsh:
a, b, c, ch, d, dd, ...
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Count to 100 in Danish
Print all the numbers from 0-100 in the right order using the Danish way of counting
How they count
Like English, they have dedicated words for 0-20, 30, 40 and 100
Instead of saying ...
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Create an unlimited counterstring
A counterstring is some sort of self-describing test data that is used in software testing. Not sure it was actually invented by James Bach, but I know it from there.
The idea is as follows: the test ...
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How many lights are on?
You are little speck on a Cartesian plane. Pondering your existence, you decide to roam around your plane and touch things. You notice that every coordinate pair you visit has a light switch. To ...
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Count blocks in a 2D grid
Challenge description
Let's define an W x H grid as a two-dimensional array of length H ...
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Prime Wednesdays
Prime Wednesdays
Your task is to count the number of Wednesdays that fall on a prime day of the month in a particular year. For instance, 7-13-16 is a prime ...
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Detriplicate a string
A lot of languages have built-in ways to get rid of duplicates, or "deduplicate" or "uniquify" a list or string. A less common task is to "detriplicate" a string. That is, for every character that ...
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Character Counting System [duplicate]
GOAL :
To Implement a character counting program
This is how this counting system works :
input of the program is a set of printable ASCII characters . the program counts each type of character , ...
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Ways to get to the number
Given the input of the first number and the second number (both positive integers, zero exluded), determine in how many ways could you make the second out of the first, using following actions: ...
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7-segment differences
I think most people around here know what a 7-segment display for digits is:
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Restricted average (arithmetic mean) – i.e. without obvious built-ins [closed]
Introduction
The arithmetic mean is defined as being equal to the sum of the numerical values of each and every observation divided by the total number of observations. Symbolically, if we have a ...
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How many shapes are in this picture?
Children are very good at classifying objects and counting them. Computers seem to have more trouble. This is a simplified version of this problem. Can you write a small program that can classify and ...
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Permutations with Indistinguishable Items
Given a list of integers, output the number of permutations of the integers, with indistinguishable permutations counted once. If there are n integers, and each ...
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Are there More Hard Objects or Soft Objects
Tangentially inspired by the opening to the What-If book.
The input is a rectangle of spaces as a string, list of string, etc., with objects made of #'s inside:
<...
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Stretch the word
The input is a word of lowercase letters not separated by whitespace. A newline at the end is optional.
The same word must be output in a modified version: For each character, double it the second ...
