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><> numbers metagolf
I struggle to easily encode big numbers in ><>. If only there was a program that could find the best way for me?
What is ><>
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BitCycle Metagolf
Background
BitCycle is a two-dimensional Turing-complete programming language involves moving bits around a playfield.
Because I am too lazy to write BitCycle programs myself, you will be writing a ...
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Splinter metagolf
The language
Splinter is an esoteric programming language where data is stored in 'splinters'. There are three different types of syntax:
Simple character output: ...
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The 1+ Metagolf Challenge
I'm letting this one out of the sandbox. Hopefully it is well-written and make sense, feel free to improve.
So in order to make 1+ more popular (and ease the creation of golfed 1+ text-printing ...
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Metagolf the OEIS
We've had Meta Regex Golf and Display OEIS Sequences. Now, it is time for Meta OEIS Golf.
Challenge
Given a sequence of integers, your program/function should output a program/function in the same ...
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Reverse busy beaver problem
In this challenge, Turing machines operate on a zero-initialized binary tape that is infinite in both directions.
You are given an integer \$N\$, where \$1 \le N \le 20000\$. Your program has to ...
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Self-displaying image [closed]
Background
There are self-extracting .ZIP files. Typically they have the extension .EXE (and by executing the file they will be ...
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Text to Brain-Flak
Your challenge is to turn input text to brain-flak code that will output the text.
Tutorial taken from here with permission here
Brain-Flak has two stacks, known as 'left' and 'right'. The active ...
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Google's Hopping Bunny
On December 4, 2017, the Google Doodle was a graphical programming game featuring a bunny. The later levels were nicely non-trivial and they seemed like a great candidate for an atomic-golf challenge.
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Meta radiation hardener
Background
On this site, we occasionally have questions requiring programs to be "radiation hardened"; this means that the program has to be able to survive the deletion of one or more bytes, no ...
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There can be only 1!
Your task is, given a positive integer n, to generate an expression that equals the number n.
The catch is: you're only allowed ...
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Golfing strings in Fourier
Challenge
Given a string as input, golf down the Fourier program which outputs that string.
In Fourier there is no easy way to output a string: you have to go through each character code and output ...
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Encode a program with the fewest distinct characters possible
The goal is to write a program that encodes an other program (input) with the fewest character possible.
Scoring
The score is equal to the different number of characters needed for the output.
Lower ...
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Brainf*** Golfer
One of easiest code written by a programming language is a program printing sequence of characters (ex. "Hello, world!"). However, some esoteric programming languages like Brainfuck, even this ...
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