Questions tagged [subsequence]
Challenges pertaining to a sequence within a larger sequence
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Length-terminated sequences
We all know the age-old debate - should strings be length-prefixed or should they be null-terminated? Well, you've run into a blob of binary data and apparently whoever made it decided that the best ...
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Where are they calling from?
When making phone calls internationally, phone numbers are prefixed with a code indicating what country the number is located in. These codes are prefix codes, meaning that no code is a prefix of ...
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Highest cardinality grouping of contiguous integers with minimum-sum threshold
Challenge
Given an array of positive integers and a threshold, the algorithm should output a set of consecutive-element-groupings (subarrays) such that each group/subarray has a sum greater than the ...
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Determine if a grid contains another grid
Challenge
Create a function takes in two 2-dimensional arrays of Characters (or Strings if the programming language does not have characters as a datatype) as inputs: a and b. If your language does ...
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Greatest common substring
Create a program or function which takes a list of strings as input, and outputs the longest string that is a substring of all input strings. If there are several substrings of equal length, and no ...
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Make me a metasequence
Background
For this challenge, a 'metasequence' will be defined as a sequence of numbers where not only the numbers themselves will increase, but also the increment, and the increment will increase ...
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Pattern Finder - Find Repeated Pattern in String [closed]
Introduction
This is a little challenge with the goal of identifying repeated pattern "blocks" in a string, and outputting them with their frequency of occurence from left to right.
A friend asked ...
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Most contributing rows
Given a non-empty matrix of non-negative integers, answer which unique rows contribute most to the sum total of elements in the matrix.
Answer by any reasonable indication, for example a mask of the ...
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Playing with the musical turtle
My two kids like to play with the following toy:
The colored areas with the shapes inside can be touched and the turtle then lights the area and plays a sound or says the name of the color or the ...
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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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Indent your code according to Fibonacci
Okay, so I saw this in a meme and decided it'd be the perfect code golf challenge:
I prefer to increase the side of my indents according to the Fibonacci sequence:
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Codegolf Rainbow : Sorting Colors with Reflection
Introduction:
After I posted two rainbow-related challenges: Codegolf Rainbow : Fun with Integer-Arrays 1 and Codegolf Rainbow : Draw in Black-and-White 2, the following comment was made by @ChrisM ...
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Subset Sum Orderings
A set of n positive numbers has 2^n subsets. We'll call a set "nice" if none of those subsets have the same sum. ...
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Indexing Cha-Cha Slide
Introduction:
Although I originally had a Dutch song in my head, where the lyrics are: "Doe 'n stapje naar voren, en 'n stapje terug" (which translated to "Take a little step forward, and a little ...
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The Ever-Increasing Graph
Consider a one-dimensional sequence of numbers within a fixed range, i.e.
[1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 0, 2, 7, 3] in range [0, 10⟩
The Ever-Increasing Graph* ** is a line ...
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ID generator with no matching contiguous pairs
Given 2 inputs (m=minimum starting id, n=number of ids), generate a sequential list of ids, starting at >=m, made up of the digits 0-9 where no 2 contiguous numbers are the same, e.g. 1232 is ok, 1233 ...
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Collapse the antistring
In this challenge you will be given an alphabetic string as input. We will define the "anti-string" of a given input to be the string with the case of all the letters inverted. For example
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Column-wise summation of overlapping slices
Task
Given a list of integers L and another integer s, the goal is to compute the column-wise sums of all s-length (potentially overlapping) slices of L, while pertaining their positions relative to ...
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Remove entries from array to sort it and maximize sum of elements
This challenge is from an admission test to a closed number cyber security course. Anyway it doesn't have to do with cyber security, it's just to test the students logical and coding skills.
Task
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Partition it into as few disjoint contiguous increasing subsequences as possible [closed]
Specification
This challenge is simple to state: your input is a non-empty array of nonnegative integers, and your task is to partition it into as few substrings as possible, such that each substring ...
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Extension of the Game of Sevens
Introduction
Output all the numbers in specific base that would appear in an adapted version of the game of seven.
Challenge
Your task is to output all the numbers in a given base in a given range, ...
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Collection from a sequence that constitute a perfect square
Given the sequence OEIS A033581, which is the infinite sequence, the n'th term (0-indexing) is given by the closed form formula 6 × n2 .
Your task is to write code, which outputs all the subsets of ...
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Help pannenkoek count A presses
pannenkoek2012 aims to complete Super Mario 64 with as few presses as possible of the A button, which makes Mario jump. Each "A press" consists of three parts:
Pressing the button
Holding it for any ...
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Reconstruct an arithmetic sequence
Given a finite arithmetic sequence of positive integers with some terms removed from the middle, reconstruct the whole sequence.
The task
Consider an arithmetic sequence: a list of positive integers ...
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Number of distinct non-empty subsequences of binary expansion
A subsequence is any sequence that you can get from another by deleting any amount of characters. The distinct non-empty subsequences of 100 are ...
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Stackable sequences
You deal cards labeled 0 to 9 from a deck one a time, forming stacks that start at 0 and count up by 1.
When you deal a 0, you place it on the table to start a new stack.
When you deal any other ...
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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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Code-Golf Assembly Line
Note: This challenge has nothing to do with actual assembly language.
As the head of Code-Golf Factory Inc., you must create an assembly line to generate a specific piece of code. Today, the foreman ...
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Reverse Fibonacci
Your task
You must write a program, to print a reverse Fibonacci series, given a number.
Input
A non-negative integer N.
Output
You must output all the Fibonacci numbers from Fk to F0, where k is ...
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2D partitioned cumulative sum
Challenge
Given a matrix M with r rows and c columns, and two Boolean lists V of length r and H of length c, calculate the partitioned cumulative vertical and horizontal sums.
Rules
r and c are ...
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Collapse consecutive integers
Related: Tell me how many math problems I have to do!
Challenge
Given a strictly positive strictly ascending integer list L and an integer 3 ≤ N ≤ length of L, replace the middle integers of L's ...
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All the k-mers/n-grams
Intro
We have had histograms and counting, but not listing all of them.
Every year, Dyalog Ltd. holds a student competition. The challenge there is to write good APL code. This is a language ...
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Test if a string can be made with substrings!
Given a string s and an array/list l, determine whether or not s can be made with parts from ...
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Is one string contained within the other? [duplicate]
Given two inputs, you should print or return whether the characters in the first string are - in order - inside the second string.
For example, we want to check whether the string ...
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Find the original string, without the repetition without the repetition in the middle
Sometimes it happens that while typing a sentence, I am distracted and I end up typing the same couple of words twice couple of words twice in succession.
To make sure make sure other people are not ...
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How many Blackjack sequences in that list?
Your task is to find how many distinct Blackjack sequences can be found in an ordered list of 12 cards.
A Blackjack sequence is defined as a sequence of consecutive cards whose sum of points is ...
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Bit run rundown
Given an integer n > 0, output the length of the longest contiguous sequence of 0 or 1 in ...
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Scroll Word's font size selector
Word's A▲ and ᴀ▼ buttons change the font size according to these rules:
The starting font size is 11.
If ᴀ▼ is pressed when the font size is 1, the size stays 1.
The font size changes with 1 point in ...
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Uniquely removable subsequences
Introduction
Consider a sequence of integers and one of its subsequences, say A = [4 2 2 4 4 6 5] and B = [2 4 5].
We want to remove the elements of B from A in order, and there are several ways of ...
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Add the Fibonnaci Sequence to the Lucas Sequence [duplicate]
Background of Lucas Numbers
The French mathematician, Edouard Lucas (1842-1891), who gave the name to the Fibonacci Numbers, found a similar series occurs often when he was investigating Fibonacci ...
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Get a word's individuality!
I love /usr/share/dict/words; it's so handy! I use it for all my programs, whenever I can! You're going to take advantage of this ever so useful file to use, by ...
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Smallest number of contiguous monotonic subsequences
Challenge description
A monotonic subsequence is a sequence of numbers [a1, a2, ..., an] such that
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Pairable strings
A string is pairable if it can be split into subtrings, each of which is a string repeated twice consecutively. For example, aabaaababbbaba is pairable as:
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Write a self-aware program [duplicate]
A standard (but disputed) test of self-awareness is the mirror test: An animal is considered self aware if it can recognize itself in the mirror.
Your task is to write a program that is self-aware ...
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Find the odd one out in a sequence
The Challenge:
Consider the function F(N) = 2^N + 1 where N is a positive integer less than ...
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Is it a wordinian?
What is the shortest way to see if an input is a wordinian using any programming language?
A wordinian is a word that contains words of length 1 to the original word's length. For example,
bin
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Generate Linus Sequence
Definition
From the description on OEIS A006345:
To find a(n), consider either a 1 or a 2...
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Missing Integer Sequence Detection — Filesystem
The challenge is to detect missing integer sequences of files or directories. You have a directory filled with files/directories that are named as integers.
The files/directories are generated from ...
