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Auto-golf an esolang
The lack of a social life drove a poor nerd into inventing another superfluous esolang called !+~%. For no good reason it initializes the accumulator with ...
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Output an image [closed]
Interestingly, although there are challenges that work with images, there is no challenge to simply output an image. This is that challenge
Goal: output an image in the shortest possible code.
Output: ...
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Solve the word problem*
In this challenge you will receive a list of positive integers \$W\$ called a word, and a square symmetric matrix \$M\$. Your task is to determine if the word can be turned into the empty list by ...
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Shapes Biscuits - An Un-identical paradox [closed]
Puzzle
I have a packet of Shapes biscuits. I would expect all of them to be identical, but alas, stacking all of the Shapes does not result in a perfect hexagonal prism.
I'd like to find out what ...
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Point-free JavaScript: write a function runner
In this programming-puzzle, your goal is to write the following function in JavaScript, using (essentially) point-free programming:
(f) => void(f())
Your ...
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Smallest integer \$n\$ such that \$\frac{\sqrt{\log_2{n}}}{(\log_2 {\log_2 n})^2} > 1\$
Write code that outputs the smallest integer \$n > 5\$ such that \$\frac{\sqrt{\log_2{n}}}{(\log_2 {\log_2 n})^2} > 1\$. Your code may have at most one digit in its source code. You can use ...
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Construct the Constructability sequence
Consider compass-and-straightedge construction, where you can construct new points from existing ones by examining intersections of straight lines and circles constructed with one of the following two ...
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Clone GNU cat 8.32
Write a program that precisely clones GNU cat version 8.32, which is
installed on my computer.
In any case, if called with the same arguments, same stdin, and same ...
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Print 100 digits of Champernowne's Constant
Inspired by this and this question
Challenge
Your challenge is to print any 100 consecutive digits of Champernowne's Constant. You must give the index at which that subsequence appears. The 0 at the ...
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Getting the full rainbow every rgb or hex color hue [closed]
Output should be a array of hex colors or rgb colors
Here’s my code I made it can also get rgb colors but I wanted to put hex for fun
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What's the character limit of this text field?
Someone I know has no coding experience, but has proposed an algorithm* to determine the character limit of text fields they find online. They copy a string containing the numbers from 1 to 1,000 ...
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Compute probability of seeing all the balls
Given \$x\$ distinguishable balls (say they have different colors), sample with replacement repeatedly until all the balls that have been seen, have been seen at least twice.
Challenge
The input is ...
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Night hike partitioning
We want to go on a night hike with the youth group, but of course not everyone has their torch, even though we told them we planned to split up. What options are there for group formation if n teens ...
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What is the shortest regex for the name "SAMUEL"? [duplicate]
Suppose that someone is trying to access records from a database on swim lessons.
At one point during the conversation, a customer says, "The student's name is Samuel Doe".
However, the name ...
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What is the shortest regular expression (REGEX) you can create for variants on the name "ELLEN"? [duplicate]
Imagine a partially automated customer service phone line.
At one point during the conversation, a customer says, "My name is Ellen Doe".
However, the name on record is spelled differently. ...
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Can the chefs go?
On the TV cooking show Guy's Grocery Games, the chefs cannot begin shopping until Guy Fieri, the show's host, says "Three, two, one, go!" However, the words do not have to be all together. ...
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Perform Gray Addition
Objective
Given two non-negative integers encoded in unbounded-length Gray code, add them and output the result, where the result is also encoded in Gray code.
Gray code
There are many equivalent ...
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Parse nested absolute values 2 [duplicate]
Looking at
Arnauld's answer, it seems like this version is not really more difficult than the other version, so I made it an optional requirement of the other challenge
The absolute value of a number \...
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Parse nested absolute values
The absolute value of a number \$x\$ is normally written as \$|x|\$. The left and right side of the absolute value uses the same symbol, so it is not immediately obvious how to parse nested absolute ...
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80% of respondents agreed…
Sometimes I see a claim like "80% of respondents agreed" and I think "what was your sample size? 5?" because, of course, with a sample size of 5 it's possible to get 80% to agree ...
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Golf an HQ9+ transpiler
There was a prior question about golfing an HQ9+ compiler that translates HQ9+ code into the language it is written in, but that was closed as a duplicate of the interpreter challenge because ...
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Write the date in abbreviated Latin
Inspired by How do you write dates in Latin?
Challenge
Given a month-and-day date, output that date in abbreviated Latin, as explained below.
Input
Input is flexible. You may choose to:
Take a date ...
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Ungolf the Wind
Weather conditions at airports are reported to pilots in METAR (METeorological Aerodrome Report) format. This format could be described as being "golfed." Here are some examples:
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One-dimensional map colouring
It is a well-known fact that you can colour a two-dimensional map with four colours in such a way that two countries with a common border always have different colours. There have already been enough ...
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Write a Web server quine
Write a program that accepts HTTP requests on any port of your choice above 1024, and responds to requests on any URL of your choice with its own source code. It must work with, at least, Firefox and ...
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Just another traffic jam!
One lane is closed, the vehicles have to thread their way in according to the zip-lock system: One car from one lane, the next car from the other lane, always taking turns.
Input: Two vehicle queues, ...
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How Many Paint Tins Do I Need?
Task
Take in 3 inputs. The length of the wall, the height of the wall and the coverage of the paint. Output how many tins of paint are required.
Output
Since there's no way to purchase ...
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Which skill to train?
Story (skip, if you prefer the naked task): You need five skills for an imaginary sport: Speed, strength, endurance, accuracy and tactics. If you achieve a score in each of these disciplines, you can ...
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Convert real numbers between factoradic and positive integer bases
This prompt asked you to convert back and forth to factoradic, but is very limited in scope (only decimal integers from 0 to 10!-1). Your task in this challenge is to reach just a bit further and ...
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Bingo Cards SVG Code [duplicate]
Generate the contents of an SVG file containing 6 bingo cards. Winner is the one that uses the shortest code. A qualifying answer has an output that can be directly pasted in a blank to get the ...
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Shortest C code to display argv in-order
I recently tried to produce the shortest C code possible to display all its command line arguments (which are stored in argv).
I ended with a relatively small piece of code, and I was wondering if ...
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Tips for Golfing in Vyxal 3
The reason for this question is because I made a deadlineless bounty and I need a tips question to link in the bounty
Vyxal 3 is the third major version of the Vyxal golfing language. As it is ...
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Print the Christmas alphabet
Write a program to print or return one of these strings verbatim:
abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Notice that there is no L.
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Produce a secure block cipher round function (1 bit round key; 7 bit message)
We need to produce a block cipher round function with a 1 bit round key size and a 7 bit message size with the highest level of cryptographic security according to our measure of security.
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Rudin-Shapiro sequence
The Rudin-Shapiro sequence is a sequence of \$1\$s and \$-1\$s defined as follows: \$r_n = (-1)^{u_n}\$, where \$u_n\$ is the number of occurrences of (possibly overlapping) \$11\$ in the binary ...
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Shortest Algorithm* That Generates a Harlequin Pattern
What is the shortest sequence of moves that, from the solved state of the cube, creates a pattern that meets the following criteria:
6 colors on each face
at most 2 facelets of the same color
no ...
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Write a checker quine [duplicate]
Write a program that takes a string as input and returns truthy if the string is the same as the source code, falsy otherwise. The usual restrictions on quines apply.
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Get the Bible verse
Write a program that accesses Project Gutenberg's KJV Bible, either from a file called pg10.txt in the working directory or in any other way that is typical for the ...
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Answer a Loaded Question (with Lojban!) [closed]
A loaded question is something like 'Have you stopped swearing?' in which both yes and no answers mean that I have swore, meaning it is impossible to answer the question if I haven't swore.
However, ...
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Limited letter renderer: BIOPD
There have of course been challenges to render ASCII art fonts here and there. This challenge doesn't add anything to those. In contrary, it subtracts from them for a good reason. If you allow all ...
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German pharmacy payment
Your task is to calculate the amount you have to pay for prescribed medication at a pharmacy in Germany. The amount is simply based on the full price of the item, which will be your input. It is a ...
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Bingo Cards PDF
Write code to generate a PDF file containing 6 bingo cards. Winner is the one that uses the shortest code and needs no actions except for installing a library and running the code. (No Save As PDF). ...
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Golf Transmission
As in, the 5 speed transmission from the original VW Golf GTI.
Print the transmission pattern in as few bytes as possible.
Yes I know this isn't what it actually looks like but the GTI 5 speed shift ...
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Decode the date in Christmas Eve format
This is the inverse of "Encode the date in Christmas Eve format."
Write a program that takes as input the string Christmas, possibly followed by ...
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How many twisted corners?
Your challenge is to output the number of twisted corners given a 2x2 Rubik's Cube scramble.
For the purpose of this challenge, twisted corners are defined as corners where the colour of the top/...
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Monotone sequence beatitude
Provided that the input is a monotone sequence of three or more integers:
Output -2 if the sequence strictly decreases. Example: [7,4,3,2]
Output -1 if the ...
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Add two natural numbers
Given two natural numbers (less than 100) as input print the sequence of intermediate results obtained when computing the sum of the two numbers using only the following operations1:
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Literate Programming in Base 26
Your task is to convert non-empty strings - between strings using the 26 letters, and programs, which are strings of bytes, where each byte has 256 possible values. You should use the same codepage ...
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