Questions tagged [kolmogorov-complexity]
Kolmogorov complexity, informally, is the amount of code it takes to describe or produce a constant object, such as a string or image. When posting a challenge in this category, please make sure it adds something new to existing challenges.
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Print a square!
Print this text:
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Shortest code wins. Notice the space at the start of the first line.
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Kolmogorov Flexibility. A.K.A. Sale! \$38\%\$ Off All Codegolf While Stocks Last!
This is a restricted-source, kolmogorov-complexity, code-golf challenge to produce a fixed output with no input.
The output format, however, is flexible - it may be printed to standard out, printed to ...
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Simulate a Cisco Ping
Premise:
For those in networking, you've most likely sent a ping to or from some device to make sure everything's properly connected. Cisco, a popular company in networking[citation needed], has a ...
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Print all lexicographically increasing numbers under 10000
A lexicographically increasing number is an integer whose digits are in strictly increasing order. Print all lexicographically increasing numbers under 10000.
Here are lines of the expected output:
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Tribute to Stan Lee
Unfortunately one of the greatest comic book writers passed away yesterday afternoon. Lots of Hollywood stars, musicians, actors, and many other people are paying tribute to this awesome writer, so we ...
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Multiplicity Test
Use any programming language to display numbers between 1 and 99 (including both) in such a way, so that:
the numbers are separated by single space,
if a number is divisible by 3, it should be in ...
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Sequence and Series
Use any programming language to display numbers divisible by 1000000 that are greater than 1 and less than 10000000. Each number should be displayed in new line. Your program should display exactly:
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Let's play tennis 2: east-west game
There is a challenge Let's play tennis by Daniel. He proposes to place a court in the North-South direction. My proposal is to create a court to play tennis in the East-West direction too.
You ...
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String analyser
Use any programming language to display "AWSALILAND" in such a way, so that each letter is in a new line and repeated as many times as its position in the English alphabet. For example letter, (A) ...
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List all possible titles for the Anno games
In the Anno video game series there are 6 games with a 7th one announced for early 2019. Their titles always feature a year in a specific pattern:
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Text compression
With the given text below, there are some words in the text that repeats several times in the text. Use any programming language to write a short code that compresses the text to display it. Or in ...
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Display numbers lacking 2's
Display numbers from one to one-hundred (in increasing order), but number 2 shouldn’t appear anywhere in the sequence. So, for example, the numbers two (2) or ...
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Letters challenge
Using the word “conemon” print each character 2 times more than the last. The first letter, “c”, should be printed 10 times, the second 12 and so on. Each repeated-letter-string should be printed on a ...
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True color code
True color (24-bit) at Wikipedia is described in pertinent part as
24 bits almost always uses 8 bits of each of R, G, B. As of 2018
24-bit color depth is used by virtually every computer and ...
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Output a Sudoku board
Today's challenge is simple: Without taking any input, output any valid sudoku board.
In case you are unfamiliar with sudoku, Wikipedia describes what a valid board should look like:
The objective ...
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Belarus rushnyk
We've got quite a few national flag challenges already:
AU
CH
FI
FR
GB
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IS
KR
NP
US...
Here's another, somewhat more advanced one:
Return or print the decorative pattern from Belarus's national ...
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Generate a deck of cards
Here's an array representing a standard deck of cards, including two Jokers.
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Beginners 10x10 multiplication matrix [duplicate]
I was looking for a very easy task to look how short of a code can be produced on a beginners exercise.
The goal is to produce a simple table that looks like this common java/c# code is about 4 lines....
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Orthodiagonal steps
It's a common problem to navigate in a 2D matrix. We've seen it many times and will see again. So let's help future us and develop the shortest solutions to generate all eight possible steps in a 2D ...
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Golf a bit-reversal table [duplicate]
The Premise:
You are writing a C driver for a screen for use on an embedded system. The screen uses a tortured version of SPI that requires data to be sent LSb (least-significant-bit) first, but MSB (...
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You must construct ASCII Pylons!
Cross posted from my anagolf post (note: may contain spoilers, post mortem).
Output the following text exactly.
You may have additional trailing whitespace on each line, and trailing newlines as ...
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Race Around the Track
I'm looking to find the fastest racer around. Show me your fastest lap around this 18x14 track shown below.
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find the pattern in this number sequence of 1's and 0's
Write the shortest program or function which generates these 1000 numbers or a sequence (0- or 1-indexed) which begins with them.
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99 Varieties of Dosa
99 Varieties of Dosa is a popular chain of roadside dosa stalls across South India. This is inspired by a combination of this chain and the classic CodeGolf challenge "99 Bottles of Beer".
Recreate ...
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Yet another “draw a box” Question [duplicate]
The following problem is a common interview question, thus dull answers are discouraged. Go short or creative, best if both:
Create the following pattern
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Fizz Buzz with unique characters in columns
Inspired by Digits in their lanes and 1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz
Introduction
Your task is to generate exactly the following output:
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The next colour
Challenge
Consider the rainbow as seven colours, represented by strings as Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet.
Your task is to create a program that ...
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Which Card is it?
Introduction
Long ago, when I used to code card games with usual playing cards, I used to specify a number for each card and call a function with some number to get a card. This somewhat inspired me ...
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Make a hammer animation
The goal is to make a two frame animation with ASCII art of a hammer smacking a table.
Trailing white-space is allowed and the frames need to repeat continuously. The program should iterate over both ...
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Left Hand vs. Right Hand — Typists Challenge
Your task is to pit each side of the keyboard against each other and build two programs, in the same language, one using only keys on the left-hand side of a standard keyboard that outputs ...
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Create a Magic 8 Ball
As a child, my friend had a magic 8 ball that we would ask questions to and see what the fate of that question was.
Challenge
Your challenge is to write a program (or function) that when run (or ...
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Hast Thou Slain the Jabberwock?
Your task is to output the exact string
The Jabberwocky
without taking input. Normal rules for input and output apply, so both functions and programs are ...
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Continued Fraction of Digit-wise Sum of Square Roots
Introduction
Your task is to generate the first 1000 terms in the continued fraction representation of digit-wise sum of square root of 2 and square root of 3.
In other words, produce exactly the ...
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Print the numbers -1, 0, 1
This is a very simple challenge, and it is to print the numbers -1, 0, and 1.
The following ...
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Print “Hey Jude” from The Beatles
Your task is to write a program which prints following four verses extracted from the lyrics from The Beatles' song "Hey Jude" (© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC):
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Kolmogorov shifter
Output or display the following three lines of text, exactly as they are shown below. A trailing newline is accepted.
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A Zealous “Quick Brown Fox” “Jumped” Along the Groovy Spiral
Introduction
Write a program to output the outgoing spiral of the famous pangram following given rules.
Challenge
A pangram is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. One ...
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Falcon Heavy stages
Choose a set of four bytes without replacement (i.e. no byte repeated), and not necessarily in any particular order, from any one of the following four sets:
The characters of any one single-byte ...
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The Programming Language Quiz, Mark II - Cops
A repost of this challenge. Meta discussion. Sandbox post. Body of the question similar to the original
Robber's challenge
This cops and robbers is now (08/03/2018) closed to further competing cop ...
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List all palindromic prime dates between 0000-01-01 and 99999-12-31
You know what a palindrome, a prime and a date are.
Your task is to list all dates in 100 thousands of years that fulfill
all three characteristics.
Nevermind anything but the numbers, use the ...
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Confusing Alphabet Staircase
Given no input, output this interesting alphabet pattern in either case (the case has to be consistent) via an accepted output method:
A
AB
ACBC
ADBDCD
AEBECEDE
AFBFCFDFEF
AGBGCGDGEGFG
AHBHCHDHEHFHGH
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Traffic direction
Rules
Given an ISO3166-1-Alpha-2 country code your task is to decide on the traffic direction for that country:
Input will be a valid country code (valid as in it's an element of the two lists ...
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Print the alphabet Christmas tree [duplicate]
I know it's 1.5 weeks after Christmas but trying to print an isosceles triangle in a monospaced font makes it look weird.
Challenge
Print the alphabet from A to Z so that it forms a filled triangle ...
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A Programming Puzzle of Mode Golf
Your task is to print the text Good morning, Green orb!, with every character repeated in place as many times as the most frequent byte in your source (the mode). ...
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Exponential-ish number sequence
Your program must print out this exact sequence:
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1006
2028
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8168
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NOPE!
As usual, shortest program ...
