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Challenges related to elementary arithmetic.
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D&D point buy cost
When making a Dungeons & Dragons character, an alternative to rolling ability scores is to assign them within a power budget called point buy. Higher ability scores cost more points, especially toward …
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Easy-to-multiply numbers
Your task is to determine whether two numbers are easy to multiply. This means that their base-10 long multiplication doesn't have any carrying (regrouping) between place values, looking at both the m …
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Sum of five cubes
Given an integer, output five perfect cubes whose sum is that integer. Note that cubes can be positive, negative, or zero. For example,
-10 == -64 - 64 + 64 + 27 + 27
so for input -10 you could out …
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Simplify a square root
Given a positive integer n, simplify the square root √n into the form a√b by extracting all square factors. The outputted a,b should be positive integers with n = a^2 * b with b as small as possible. …
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Multiply with restricted operations
Goal
Your goal is to multiply two numbers using only a very limited set of arithmetic operations and variable assignment. …
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American odds to probabilities
American odds (aka moneyline odds) are numbers like \$+150\$ or \$-400\$ used to express how much a winning bet would pay out. Convert odds to a fair win probability like this:
Positive odds \$+n\$ w …
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Iterated partial sums
The partial sums of a list of integers [a1, a2, a3, ..., an] are
s1 = a1
s2 = a1 + a2
s3 = a1 + a2 + a3
...
sn = a1 + a2 + ... + an
We can then take the list of partial sums [s1, s2, s3, ..., sn] …