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Convert 1 into any positive integer using only the operations *3 and /2

Python, score 121 (87 - 2 + 36) t=bin(41) l,n,f=len(t),1,0 while bin(n)[:l]!=t:f+=1;n*=3 print(len(bin(n))-l)*'g'+f*'f'
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Reverse Polish notation

Python, 130 characters Would be 124 characters if we dropped b and (which some of the Python answers are missing). And it incorporates 42! s=[] for x in raw_input().split(): try:s=[float(x)]+s exc …
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Golfing: How many unit-length squares in a list of 2d coordinates?

Python, 61 chars f=lambda l:sum(1for x,y in l if{(x+1,y),(x,y+1),(x+1,y+1)}<l) Sample: >>> f({(0,0), (0,1), (1,1), (1,0), (0,2), (1,2)}) 2 >>> f({(0,0), (0,1), (1,1), (1,0), (0,2), (1,2), (2,2), ( …
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