Questions tagged [number]
This challenge is intended to be solved by using, manipulating, accepting as input, or outputting numeric values.
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Maximum summed subsequences with non-adjacent items
Introduction:
Inspired by these two SO questions (no doubt from the same class): print the elements in the subarray of maximum sum without adjacent elements java and Maximum sum of non adjacent ...
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Amount of permutations on an NxNxN Rubik's Cube
Introduction:
A 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube has \$43,252,003,274,489,856,000\$ possible permutations, which is approximately 43 quintillion. You may have heard about this number before, but how is it actually ...
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List of Python versions
Python is the fastest-growing major programming language today. It is the most wanted language for the third year in a row, meaning that developers who do not yet use it say they want to learn it. [1]....
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Area of a 2D convex hull [on hold]
You are given an array/list/vector of pairs of integers representing cartesian coordinates (x, y) of points on a 2D Euclidean plane; all coordinates are between −104 and 104, duplicates are allowed. ...
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Match Roman Numerals
Challenge
Given some input string, return a truthy value if it represents a correct roman numeral between 1 (=I) and 3999 (=...
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Patience, young “Padovan”
Everyone knows the Fibonacci sequence:
You take a square, attach an equal square to it, then repeatedly attach a square whose side length is equal to the largest side length of the resulting rectangle....
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How long does it take to type this?
Introduction
I can type at a moderate pace, using the QWERTY keyboard layout. But if a word like yellowwooddoor has a ton of repeated letters, it takes a bit longer to type it. Even worse is when a ...
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Valid term from quadratic sequence?
You are given four numbers. The first three are \$a\$, \$b\$, and \$c\$ respectively, for the sequence:
$$T_n=an^2+bn+c$$
You may take input of these four numbers in any way. The output should be ...
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Expand and Contract
Take a positive integer \$k\$ as input. Start with \$n := 1\$ and repeatedly increase \$n\$ by the largest integer power of ten \$i\$ such that \$i \le n\$ and \$i + n \le k\$.
Repeat until \$n = k\$ ...
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Valid Badminton Score?
Introduction:
I saw there was only one other badminton related challenge right now. Since I play badminton myself (for the past 13 years now), I figured I'd add some badminton-related challenges. ...
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Calculating total slots
Given a list of jobs, which must be done in order, with each taking a slot to do, how long will it take to perform them all if after doing a job the same job cannot be done for the next two slots (...
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The Digit Triangles
Challenge:
Input: A positive integer \$n\$
Output:
Create a list in the range \$[1,n]\$, and join it together to a string (i.e. \$n=13\$ would be the string ...
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Sort a list of Numbers as letters [closed]
So, you have a random list (random meaning it doesn't matter what order it is in) of numbers with a length of n, where n is a positive integer smaller than 1000 and ...
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Am I not good enough for you?
Background:
The current Perfect Numbers challenge is rather flawed and complicated, since it asks you to output in a complex format involving the factors of the number. This is a purely decision-...
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Could you please stop shuffling the deck and play already?
Challenge:
Input: A list of distinct positive integers within the range \$[1, \text{list-size}]\$.
Output: An integer: the amount of times the list is riffle-shuffled. For a list, this means the ...
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New Order #1: How does this feel?
Introduction
Putting all positive numbers in its regular order (1, 2, 3, ...) is a bit boring, isn't it? So here is a series of challenges around permutations (reshuffelings) of all positive numbers.
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Is it a Cyclops number? “Nobody” knows!
Task:
Given an integer input, figure out whether or not it is a Cyclops Number.
What is a Cyclops number, you may ask? Well, it's a number whose binary representation only has one ...
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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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Sum integers in a string
Input
A string.
Output
The sum of all integers in the line.
Constraints
1≤Length of line≤500
Sample test Case
Input
the 5is 108 seCONd4 a
Output
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Jumping Numbers
A jumping number is defined as a positive number n which all pairs of consecutive decimal digits differ by 1. Also, all single digit numbers are considered jumping numbers. eg. 3, 45676, 212 are ...
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Historical difference between `/` and `÷` in mathematical expressions
Introduction:
Inspired by a discussion that is already going on for many years
regarding the expression \$6÷2(1+2)\$.
With the expression \$6÷2(1+2)\$, mathematicians will quickly see that ...
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Am I a Rude Number?
For a while now, I've been running into a problem when counting on my fingers, specifically, that I can only count to ten. My solution to that problem has been to count in binary on my fingers, ...
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Square Root Distance from Integers
Given a decimal number k, find the smallest integer n such that the square root of n is ...
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The real treasure was the numbers we made along the way
Your task is to write a program, function or snippet (yes, snippets are allowed) that simply outputs an integer. However, you must be able to separate your submission into prefixes that also produce ...
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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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Countries by Area
Challenge
Given two non negative integers a < b, output all countries, from the below Top 100 Countries, where area is between ...
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A Multipurpose Quine
I personally love quines, but they all seem to be so... static. So why not create a quine that can do more.
Challenge
The challenge here is to create a quine that without any sort of input is a ...
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Trapped Knight Sequence
Introduction
Inspired by the very recent video The Trapped Knight - Numberphile, I came up with a challenge.
The trapped knight sequence is a finite integer sequence of length 2016, starting from 1, ...
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Spot all (anti)diagonals with duplicated values
Challenge:
Given a matrix input, determine the amount of diagonals and anti-diagonals with duplicated numbers.
So if we have a matrix like this:
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Prime Difference [duplicate]
Given an integer n, output the smallest prime such that the difference between it and the next prime is at least n.
For example, if n=5, you would output ...
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Work out \$x^y\$ using only addition and subtraction [duplicate]
The challenge is to implement a function or program that takes two numbers, \$x\$ and \$y\$ and return the result of \$x^y\$.
The program cannot use any other mathematical operation other than \$+\$ ...
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Matrix Jigsaw Puzzles
Input:
An integer n
Two equal-sized square matrices (with their width/height being a multiple of n)
Output:
One of two ...
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Enumerate each series of identical numbers in-place
Given a list of strictly positive integers, go through each distinct number and replace all occurrences of it with successive indices (zero or one based) of a new series.
Examples
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Mis-decode a date
Background
Inspired by a now deleted question by John Burger from which I quote:
Now obviously no human made this mistake. It's a mis-decode of something - perhaps the ISBN? My question is: ...
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Surreal Numbers
Surreal Numbers
Surreal numbers are one way of describing numbers using sets. In this challenge you will determine the value of a surreal number.
Intro
A surreal number consists of two sets: a left ...
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Approximate the proportion of integers with neighboring factors
If 1 is not counted as a factor, then
40 has two neighboring factors (4 and 5)
1092 has two neighboring factors (13 and 14)
350 does not have two neighboring factors
(out of its factors 2, 5, 7, 10, ...
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Sino-Korean numerals [duplicate]
The Korean language has two sets of numerals, a native Korean numerals and Sino-Korean numerals.
The native Korean numerals are mostly used for numbers under 100, such as age and time.
The Sino-...
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Convert to Suzhou numerals
Suzhou numerals (蘇州碼子; also 花碼) are Chinese decimal numerals:
0 〇
1 〡 一
2 〢 二
3 〣 三
4 〤
5 〥
6 〦
7 〧
8 〨
9 〩
They pretty much work like Arabic numerals, except ...
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Round the digits last digit, over and over
Challenge:
Given two inputs, x and y, round x to one less significant figure, then repeat until it has y number of unrounded digits left. (the decimal point does not count as a digit)
Input & ...
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Satisfying Rounding
Satisfying Rounding
You know when you're in science class, and asked to round to 2 sig figs, but your answer is 5.2501...? You should round to ...
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Golf a number bigger than Loader's number
As a follow up to Shortest terminating program whose output size exceeds Graham's number and Golf a number bigger than TREE(3), I present a new challenge.
Loader's number is a very large number, ...
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Self-contained powers
Given integer n, output the smallest exponent e greater than 1 such that n^e contains ...
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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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Number letter counts [closed]
If the numbers 1 to 5 are written out in words: one, two, three, four, five, then there are 3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 19 letters used in total.
Output how many letters would be used if all the numbers from ...
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Largest Number in Brainfuck BigInt for each program length up to 50 instructions
This challenge is for the largest finite number you can get BrainFuck programs of given lengths to contain in memory.
We must use one of the BF versions that uses big integers for the cells rather ...
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Sort by Largest Digit(s)
Challenge:
Given a list of integer, sort descending by their single largest digit(s). The order for numbers with the same largest digit are then sorted by second largest digit, etc.
We ignore ...
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Upward and onward to greater glory!
May this challenge serve as (another) tribute to Stan Lee, who passed away aged 95.
Stan Lee has left us an invaluable legacy and a peculiar catch word: Excelsior. So here's a small challenge based ...
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Through Space and Time
Introduction:
In general we usually speak of four dimensions: three space dimensions for x, y, and ...
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Print the Lost numbers
As a big fan of the Lost TV series, I always got intrigued by the sequence of numbers that repetitively appears on the episodes. These numbers are:
\$ 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42\$ (A104101)
Using any ...
