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Output the text "Code Bowling"

Python 3, 82 87 88 Thanks to @JonathanAllan for +1 score ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World

Keg, \$3.3 \times 10^{8912898}\$ bytes ...÷⅍+ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,⅍+ℤ,⅍+ℤ,⅍+ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,(􏿿|⅍+)ℤ,⅍+ℤ, Program as seen in the raw ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World

APL (Dyalog Unicode), \$ \approx (10 \uparrow)^{625} 10.024549 \gg 10 \uparrow \uparrow 626 \$ bytes ⎕UCS(13⌿*⌿2+|⊃⎕RL⊣⎕RL←⍪⍨1)⊤≢⍬⍬⍬... The exact byte count is $...
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

Glypho, 94 The source file is encoded in CP437. ...
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

Haskell, 39 45 50 52 60 bytes main=do{(\𤶸 陸 ⵙ 商 ߜ 新->pure fst)LT EQ[]3 2$1} Identifier main has to have type <...
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

Jelly, 253 254 256 bytes ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World

Python 3, 44619 8.13*1011515 ~\$10^{10^{5749}}\$ bytes The program itself is rather too large to fit in the observable universe on Stack Overflow, so this is a link to a program that can generate it.....
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

Python 2,  20 21 33 39 45  50 bytes Now very much a collaborative effort! +2 thanks to Aidan F. Pierce (replace sorted({0}) with ...
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

><>, 92 94 YAY, I DID IT! is the exotic character \x11 with decimal value 17. The program exits with an error after ...
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Square and square

JavaScript (ES6), N = 5 With a leading newline instead of a trailing newline. alert ((a=` `+!!0 )+a+a +a+a) JavaScript (ES6), N = 6 ...
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Rearrangeable Code Bowling

Lenguage, 1,112,064 points if UTF-8 My program consists of every possible UTF-8 character. It prints out "Hello world", and uses 1.75 * 1076 yottabytes of space. (To generate the program, ...
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

C (tcc), x86_64, 29 31 33 39 40 bytes main[]={(23*8),-~0xABEDFCfebdc%95674+1}; Returns 0. Thanks to @feersum for suggesting uppercase hex digits. Try it online! ...
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

Octave, 20 21 22 25 27 33 The best I've managed this far is g=@()disp(horzcat([67 9583 -412],'e B',"nvkhmf"+!0)); This creates an anonymous function ...
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Same code different characters

C, 231 Program A ...
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

><>, 122 bytes ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World

JavaScript, 9007199254741154 bytes ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World

Python 3, more than \$X\$ with \$X=I \uparrow^{I\uparrow^I I} I\$ with \$I=5735816763073854918203775149089\$ The code is obtained by replacing the ... in the ...
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Rearrangeable Code Bowling

Many languages, 2 points 0. Produces 0.0 as 0. or .0. ...
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Meta-bowling Golf

Japt & Japt, Score: 255 / 38 = 6.71 Program A: "iQ ²¯24 G²õ@i'#+Xd"iQ ²¯24 G²õ@i'#+Xd Program B is over 8kB long, so long that the link breaks, so I won't paste ...
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

JavaScript, 42 bytes if([0XacdCADE*Proxy.length]!=362517948)田 Removing i, f, or ...
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

C, 27 29 +2 points thanks to @ceilingcat! f(){char q<:]="Code B\157wling";puts(q);%>
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

QBasic, 34 This is unformatted code (yay for case-insensitivity). You can run it in QB64 or at archive.org (though note that the latter will format the code as you type it). I think I've managed to ...
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Rearrangeable Code Bowling

CJam, score 15 T U V LMOQR[]0q Try it online! Always prints 0000: 0 just pushes a ...
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Pristine and Unique Code Bowling

Brain-Flak, 2 bytes <> Try it online! Alternatively, [], {} or ...
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Is everything in order?

05AB1E, 10 ... 172 distinct bytes ...
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Output greater than without the previous character

05AB1E, \$\infty\$ characters ...
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Output the text "Code Bowling"

Haskell, score 21 38 46 47 21 70 putStr$toEnum(length"!#%&'*+,-./012345789;<=>?@ADGHIJKLMNOPQRTUVWXYZ[]^_`abcfjkqsvyz{|}~"):"ode B\x6Fwling" Try it ...
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Rearrangeable Code Bowling

MATL, 3 5 6 points The idea to add whitespace was taken from Bijan's answer. lv T1 The code, or any permutation thereof, outputs three ones separated by newlines. ...
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