Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Mar 1, 2022 at 11:33 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2022 at 9:50 | comment | added | pxeger | @tsh "You may choose whether to include the empty string as a possible output" | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 9:08 | comment | added | tsh |
Does "Every possible length of xs" includes 0 (empty output)?
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| Feb 25, 2022 at 7:44 | comment | added | pxeger | @tsh Well obviously nothing can output an infinite precision number of any kind, but I'm allowing it as an assumption because I think it should be considered a valid possible solution. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 7:20 | comment | added | tsh |
@pxeger I cannot understand how random_between_0_and_1 output a "infinite precision" number in finite time (so program will halt with with probability 1). But regardless this, the rule seems clear to me.
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 16:20 | comment | added | pxeger |
@tsh @Bubbler Do you think the rule I just added is adequate? (I think tsh's suggested repeat("x", floor(1/random_between_0_and_1())) should be considered valid as long as it never causes a division by zero.)
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 16:19 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 23:56 | comment | added | Bubbler |
Looks like "the RNG in use has perfect random distribution" is a necessary assumption, but allowing the return value of RNG to be of infinite precision sounds a bit weird, as tsh pointed out. You may want to clarify these points in the challenge rules. (I'm not entirely against it though; in some langs the only source of randomness is a random real number in [0,1), which makes some compromises like "you can only use RNGs that return a finite number of integers" unsuitable)
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 10:32 | comment | added | tsh |
Since most languages random number generator (RNG) only have finite state, The program won't output infinity number of different outputs. You may argue that we may consider (assume) RNG have infinity digits (precision). But then, someone would argue that repeat("x", floor(1/random_between_0_and_1())) is a valid submission as we can consider the output of random_between_0_and_1 have infinity precision. It is not very clear which is valid and which is not to me.
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 8:19 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 3:43 | comment | added | DialFrost | i have no idea what this challenge is about but +1 | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 21:12 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 20:43 | comment | added | rydwolf |
Would printing an infinite stream of separators or xs be valid? It's an infinitesimally small chance that just, e.g., one x is ever printed for the rest of time, but does that count (I'd be inclined to say no)?
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| Feb 21, 2022 at 20:59 | history | answered | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |