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Answer 1

Count bytes like a Java golfer

Java is verbose, everybody knows that. Sometimes, here on PPCG, it happens that a Java answer is shorter than 60 characters, but most of the time it's longer, way longer! And the Java golfers here often post improvement suggestions in comments.

Alas, the PPCG website is based on the stack software, which invisibly cuts <code> comments according to an obscure rule, which I shall name the "Java golfer's bane", making it impossible to get an accurate byte-count by copy-pasting.

The rule in question is the following:

• in a <code> tag, insert two invisible characters
  • the first time after 60 non-whitespace consecutive characters
  • then subsequently ever 20 non-whitespace consecutive characters

Challenge

Your goal is to help us, poor Java golfers, to get the byte-count straight from when we copy/paste code from comments.

SE software rules are, I'm sure, complex, so we will simplify a bit, but not that much.

• Your input:
  • is mappable to UTF-8;
  • must support codepoints until at least U+FFFF;
  • will contain only characters with codepoints greater than or equal to U+0020;
  • must be a string or a characters array/list if those accept unicode characters, or else must be an integer (16 bits minimum) array/list. Unless I forgot anything obvious, no other input format is allowed.
• If a sequence of non-whitespace characters in the input contains more than 60 characters:
  • keep the 60 first characters, then skip the next 2 characters;
  • then until you meet a whitespace, keep the next 20 characters and skip the next 2.
  • We don't care which are the two stripped characters.
• Your output is the size of the string after being sanitized, in bytes as encoded in UTF-8! You must support very long Java answers, up to 500 characters (not bytes).
  • You don't need to map to UTF-8 since I give the rule on how to count without mapping, but in some languages it might be easier to actually map!
• The standard loopholes are naturally forbidden.
• This is codegolf, so the shortest answer in bytes wins!

You may assume the following:

• the only whitespace character you will ever get is the space (U+0020). I abuse the term whitespace by including the start of the string as well in its meaning.
• no whitespace will be at positions 62, 94, 116, (+22) ... after the previous whitespace

You may not assume the following:

• The skippable characters will exclusively be the ones SE actually uses (U+200C U+200B);
• you will get only ASCII characters;
• you will not get any diacritics.

Bonus

• if your code supports Unicode code points up to U+1FFFFF, you can remove 10% off your byte count, do not round the resut.

How to count the number of UTF-8 bytes?

If you haven't a builtin for that, Wikipedia gives us the rule, based on code points:

first code point  |  last code point  |  # bytes
U+0000            |  U+007F           |  1
U+0080            |  U+07FF           |  2
U+0800            |  U+FFFF           |  3
U+10000           |  U+1FFFFF         |  4

Wikipedia goes beyond those number, but the RFC 3629 capped this mapping to 4 bytes, so we thank it!

Test cases

Work in progress!

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Notes for review:

• Suggested tags: code-golf, string, unicode
• Related:
  • Bytes/Character (different as there is an additional string manipulation)

Answer 2

What feedback do you have for me?

Challenge

Convert and print out a time in a 12-hour format. HH:MM AM/PM

Examples

Input:

• 'Fri Jun 30 2017 21:14:20 GMT-0700 (PDT)'
• 'Sat Jun 31 2018 08:06:20 GMT-0700 (PDT)'
• 'Fri Jul 01 2017 01:14:20 GMT-0700 (PDT)'
• 'Sat Apr 10 2020 09:06:20 GMT-0700 (PDT)'

Ouput:

• 09:14 PM
• 08:06 AM
• 01:14 AM
• 09:06 AM

Rules

• This is code-golf so the shortest solution in bytes wins
• Standard Loopholes Apply
• You may use functions as well as programs

Answer 3

Help! My code has exploded! code-challenge

Insert backstory here

Task:

Your task is to create a program, which must follow these rules:

• It must be able to be split exactly into pieces of the same length in bytes.
• Once you have separated your program into pieces, your program must print 1 if the first "piece" is removed from your code, 2 if the second "piece" is removed, etc., until the program prints n if the nth piece is removed.

For example, if your program was the following:

aabbccdd

And it could be split into 4 equal parts of length 2, then these programs must result in the following outputs:

bbccdd -> 1 (aa is removed)
aaccdd -> 2 (bb is removed)
aabbdd -> 3 (cc is removed)
aabbcc -> 4 (dd is removed)

Scoring requirements:

Your program is scored based on the number of parts that it can be split into, with each part following the rules defined above. The more parts, the higher the score.

In the event of a tie, there is a "hierarchy" of scoring methods (with the next method in the list being used when there is a tie):

• Number of parts the program can be split equally into
• Size of the full program, in bytes (shortest byte-count wins)
• Time posted (first poster wins)

Rules:

• Each byte in the program must belong to one part.
• Each part in the program must be of equal length.

Answer 4

Introduction

Ten years ago, a secret encryption key used by DVD players was published online. When the industry tried to censor it, the internet reacted by republishing it widely—creatively incorporating the key onto shirts, a flag and even in song.

If this code golf community had existed, I'm sure we would have joined in.

Challenge

Output the number 13256278887989457651018865901401704640.

Example input and output

Input:

Not applicable.

Output:

13256278887989457651018865901401704640

Answer 5

Decode Reddit's Voting System code-golf number

Background

Users with a high enough reputation on Stack Exchange can see the number of upvotes and downvotes on each question and answer. On Reddit, however, the net vote count and percentage of upvotes are displayed. Unfortunately due to rounding errors, it is impossible to determine exactly how many upvotes and downvotes occurred.

Challenge

Given a nonzero net vote count and a percentage of upvotes, return all possible pairs of the numbers of upvotes and downvotes.

Constraints

The net vote count can be any integer in the range [-2^31, 2^31).

The percentage can be a whole number in the range [0, 100], or a floating point number in the range [0, 1] with no more than two digits; you may decide which format to accept.

The percentage represents the percentage of votes which are upvotes, rounded to the nearest integer. So a value of 93% could be anywhere in the range [92.5%, 93.5%) that would result

The maximum numbers of upvotes and downvotes will not fall outside the range [-2^31, 2^31); that is, you should be safe using 32-bit signed integers.

You may not return two ranges representing all possible amounts of downvotes and upvotes; you must specify which numbers of upvotes correspond to which numbers of downvotes; hence you must return all possible pairs.

Test Cases

1, 67%  -> [(2, 1)]
1, 100% -> [(1, 0)]
1, 60%  -> [(3, 2)]
0, 50%  -> [(0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 2), ...]; cases like this will not be valid input
More involved ones to come...

Meta

Anything I can do to make this more clear or more fun?

Answer 6

Create The Correct Path

Which would be better code golf with shortest code and being able to run on at least two operating systems or code challenge and scoring by how many operating systems it can run on?

(code-golf OR code-challenge) file-system

Given an input create a program that when ran on different operating systems creates a path for each one. For example, when ran on Windows:

[ "folder1", "folder2" ] -> folder1\folder2

Input

An array of strings or any suitable alternative. The input can be empty, in which case you would just return an empty string.

Output

The correct path for the operating system the program has been ran on.

Answer 7

If you've come here, you probably know what code-golf is, and that's what I'm going to assume.

Story

(I guess)

Keyboards are input devices we use all the time. They existed before mice and touch screen, etc.

Their fundamentals have not changed: when you press a key down, a signal is sent to the computer. When you release it, another signal is sent.

So here's the challenge: calculate the minimum number of signals(length of a signal does not matter) depending on the input string.

Example:

Input:

test

Output:

8

Explanation: All keys have to be pressed down and released

Input2:

TEst

Output2:

10

Explanation: Shift has to be pressed, then T, down, up, E, down, up, then release shift, then s down, up, then t down, up, totalling up to 10.

Rules

Any language is accepted.
This is code-golf, so shortest code in bytes wins.
Programs with incorrect outputs will be disqualified.

Happy golfing!

Edit:

The keyboard layout used should be this: http://dry.sailingissues.com/keyboard-US-International.png

Only characters in this keyboard layout will be used (+lowercase letters).

Using Caps-Lock is ok, since it DOES have an advantage: numbers remain numbers while letters become uppercase.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

Answer 8

Abbreviate a rename

After you commit a rename, git reminds you but tries to avoid showing the full source and target path. It does this by splitting the path into components, extracting identical leading and trailing components, then using them to abbreviate the rename. (Other output that git produces is not relevant here.) Here is an example:

foo/bar/baz/quux.c => foo/baz/bar/quux.c

The leading component foo and trailing component quux.c is the same, so this becomes

foo/{bar/baz => baz/bar}/quux.c

This also works when one of the components is empty, e.g.:

foo/{bar/baz => }/quux.c
foo/{ => baz/bar}/quux.c

Please write a program or function that abbreviates a rename. The input can be a pair of strings or a single string with a delimiter which can be => or newline or something else not typically found in a file name. The output should be a single string containing a => as shown. You can assume that neither string is a prefix of the other (git doesn't abbreviate the rename in that case for some reason.)

This is code-golf, so the shortest program wins!

Answer 9

Lazy programmers need help versioning!

code-golf string

So here's a question, which is related to a recent problem I had while doing some data processing. I think it is good practice to include version numbers in file names to prevent data being overwritten and so you can see how things have changed with each version but I'm lazy so want it automating!

Your challenge

Take a full Windows file path and either increment the file version, or if there is no version, make it version 1.

Input

A full Windows file path, that includes the file extension.

Output

The original file path with the file version, incremented appropriately.

Rules

• The version is determined by an underscore followed by a single digit, i.e _1 for version 1.
• For a file that already have a version, it will only be in the range 1-8, so you only ever have to deal with single digit file versions.
• Standard rules apply
• Default Loopholes are forbidden.
• Please provide explanations of your code so others can learn form it and if possible, links to an online interpreter such as TIO
• This is code-golf so shortest code in bytes wins!

Test cases

Case 1
Input:  C:\Foo\Bar.txt
Output: C:\Foo\Bar_1.txt

Case 2
Input:  C:\notsortedfile_version_1_new_5.docx
Output: C:\notsortedfile_version_1_new_6.docx

Case 3
Input:  D:\a\very\deep\file\567234.pdf
Output: D:\a\very\deep\file\567234_1.pdf

Case 4
Input:  Z:\Storage\Somefile_2017-04-11.txt
Output: Z:\Storage\Somefile_2017-04-11_1.txt

Case 5
Input:  Z:\Storage\I.Like.Dots.txt
Output: Z:\Storage\I.Like.Dots_1.txt

Sandbox Questions

Not sure if this is dupe of Please release me!

Any feedback welcome.

Answer 10

Let's simplify polynomials

In many situations we have to expand mathematical expressions containing variables, for example, calculating characteristic polynomials, expanding products of polynomials, etc. It is trivial if the variables are known (in this case, we just substitute the variables with the corresponding values and evaluate the expression by a calculator), but not so simple if we need to manually expand the expression.

Motivation

Consider the cases with only one variable (say, x). Suppose the coefficients are sufficiently small. Then, a simple way is to take x to be some number (e.g. 1000), evaluate the expression and convert the numerical answer back to a polynomial.

Here is an example. Suppose we need to expand

Put and evaluate it using a dumb calculator. The answer is .

By running the program/function with input -984982000, one should get

[-1, 15, 18, 0] (descending order)

, and so the expanded polynomial is .

The task

Write a program or function which satisfies the following:

• The input is an integer, which is calculated by substituting x = 1000 in a polynomial (which you have to find out).
• Output the coefficients, guaranteed to be in the range [-499,499] (inclusive), and to be integers. You can represent the polynomial in either ascending or descending order, so long as it is consistent across different runs. You can return a list of integers, print to standard output (with non-numeric separators), etc.

Examples

Input         Output (descending power)
1003005007    1 3 5 7
1001          1 1
999           1 -1
998994        1 -1 -6
-998994       -1 1 6
1000001       1 0 1
0             0


Input
1003005007

Valid outputs                     Invalid outputs
[1 3 5 7] (descending order)      1357 (coefficients are not separated)
[7 5 3 1] (ascending order)       7531 (coefficients are not separated)
"1 3 5 7" (descending order)      "1357" (coefficients are not separated)
"7, 5, 3, 1" (ascending order)    [1 5 3 7] (neither ascending nor descending order)
7                                 "10305070" (numeric separator "0")
5
3
1 (ascending order)

Rules

1. Standard loophole applies.
2. Your program/function should be able to at least handle polynomials of degree 3. Also, the input might be negative. Therefore, using a suitable data type is necessary.
3. You can take the input in integer or string format. It is guaranteed that the input is a valid integer.
4. The shortest program/function (in bytes) wins. Good luck!

Answer 11

Fighting a Land War

In this KoTH, you need to earn as much money as you can while fighting over tiles to take over.

The board is a large hexagon made up of 91 smaller hexagonal tiles (A 6x6 hexagon)

Each tile is either:

1. An impassable mountain
2. Hills that generate production. They start out with a random value (between 2 to 4)
3. Valleys that generate money. Their starting value is the distance from the nearest corner multiplied by 2 (between 2 and 10)

There are 6 players in each game, each starting in a different corner of the hexagon. The corner will always be a hill(4). Turn order is randomized at the start of the game.

Each turn, the following happens:

1. Each tile that you have owned for N^2 turns (where N is an integer) increases in value by 1
2. You earn money/production. (Equal to the sum of the valley/hill values)
3. You can spend production on defenses or capturing tiles.
   • Adding N TileDefense costs N Production
   • Capturing a tile with N TileDefense costs 1 + 2*N Production
   • You can only capture a tile if it is a non-mountain tile that is adjacent to your current tiles.

Notes:

• Tiles lose all defense on capture.
• Multiple players can upgrade a single tile
  • The turn counter for tile upgrades is player-specific. This means that if you capture a tile from another player, the turn counter starts at 0.
  • If you capture a tile you've owned before, it starts off where you left it.

And that's it. The player with the most money after 500? turns wins.

Answer 12

Rock Paper Scissors, but it's a big, custom tournament

We all know "Rock, Paper, Scissors", and it's pretty variated.

A world tournament is held every year, and it's dang popular.

However, the contestants are able to bring their own ways of play to the plate, and they play with them.

The challenge:

Create a program that, by process of elimination through RPS, determines the winner of the tournament.

The tournament rules:

• No slackers. (Let the amount of players be an integer equally divisible by 2. [In other words, an even number.])

• You can bring 2 of either of the 4 variants:

  None: Play regular RPS.

  RPSLV: Play "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" (play diagram shown here).

  Best out of three: Play 3 rounds; if by round 2, a player wins the round and has two points, they auto win. Else, winner of the next round wins.

  Double RPS: Play with four hands (two hands used by each player).

• You cannot bring two of the same variant.

• In order to use a variant, the two players must have the same type of variant. If there are no matching variants, the gameplay is automatically None.

• However, if there are more than one variant matches, a game of mode None will be played. The winner of the game mentioned decides what mode they play for the match they will play to see who goes to the next round.

• In the case of a tie, replay until a win occurs (for all modes)

• There can be only one winner.

The coding rules:

• All choices must be randomized (no strategies, to make this simple.).

• No standard loopholes.

• Give an explanation as much as you can. (If possible, include a "Try it out online" sample.)

Sample Input/Output:

You must make a table variable with all the player numbers, from 1 to n, with two variants for each player.

n = the amount of players you intend to enter.

Example Input:

Player # | Var 1 | Var 2
1        | RSPLV | None
2        | None  | x2 RPS
3        | x2 RPS| Boo3
4        | Boo3  | x2 RPS
...      |...    | ...

Make a func() that:

1: Checks the variants of the next two availible players on the list, starting at player 1, then does the second to third last rules depending on what happens.

2: Makes the pair engage in battle, gameplay depending on the chosen variant.

3: Finally, boot the loser off the game and add the winner to the next list (round). (The "boot the loser" part isn't that required, but I recommend so as to not make the program add a player to the next table.)

Output (uses table from input):

 Round 1:
 1 vs. 2 // None, since the None variant matches both of them
 ["Rock"/*1*/,"Scissors"/*2*/]
 1 wins

 3 vs. 4 // They have more than one match, so they fight for who decides
 ["P"/*3*/,"S"/*4*/]
 4 wins, and chooses Best out of 3 
 Match 1:
 ["P"/*3*/,"R"/*4*/] // 1(3) - 0(4)

 Match 2:
 ["P"/*3*/,"S"/*4*/] // 1(3) - 1(4)

 Match 3:
 ["P"/*3*/,"R"/*4*/] // 2(3) - 1(4)
 3 wins

 Round 2:
 1 vs. 4 //No matches, defaults to None
 ["R"/*1*/,"R"/*4*/] // No-one wins
 ["R"/*1*/,"S"/*4*/]
 1 wins the tournament

Misc. requirements (some optional):

A {!} means it is required.

• {!} Print each match, and who wins.

• {!} Print the tournament winner.

• {!} The number of players must be flexible.

• Print the table for each round.

Scenarios:

None:

a vs. b //Either they have no matches, or they have both None matches
["R"/*a*/,"S"/*b*/]
a wins

RPSLV (will make this one quick):

a vs. b //RPSLV chosen
["V"/*a*/,"L"/*b*/]
b wins

Best out of Three:

Scenario 1: (a tie occurs at match 2)

a vs. b //Boo3 chosen
Match 1:
["P"/*a*/,"S"/*b*/] // 0(a) - 1(b)

Match 2:
["P"/*a*/,"P"/*b*/] // tie
["P"/*a*/,"S"/*b*/] // 1(a) - 1(b)

Match 3:
["R"/*a*/,"S"/*4*/] // 2(a) - 1(b)
a wins

Scenario 2: (a player has two points by the end of match 2)

a vs. b //Boo3 chosen
Match 1:
["P"/*a*/,"S"/*b*/] // 0(a) - 1(b)

Match 2:
["S"/*a*/,"P"/*b*/] // 0(a) - 2(b)
b automatically wins

Double RPS:

a vs. b //x2 RPS chosen
[("R", "P")/*a*/, ("S", "S")/*b*/] // lock
[("P", "P")/*a*/, ("S", "S")/*b*/]
b wins

Both the coding and tournament rules apply to your code.

For sandbox use only (won't be included in real question)

I don't know if this kind of problem is suitable for code golf, it could be a programming puzzle, I'm not sure. Go ahead in the comments and tell me what mode it should be, and if I should improve it. (Also, sorry for the mix of Python lists and C++ comments, if it confuses you.) A ** means the choice is random.

Answer 13

What's Underneath the Sine Wave?

kolmogorov-complexity code-golf

Task

Your task is to output a part of the sine wave out of any characterss of your choosing and on any background of your choosing. The wave can start and end either on the highest or the lowest point of the wave if both are the same.

The challenges main part is what happens below the wave (or above if you chose to start at the peaks of the wave). For each column, looking top-to-down it should repeat until the bottom the segment of spaces until the wave.

Or a visual explanation:

Start with a sine wave of your choosing (this is not a valid one as it isn't 50x20, but smaller to save space):

             ####             
           ##    ##           
          #        #          
         #          #         
        #            #        
       #              #       
      #                #      
     #                  #     
    #                    #    
  ##                      ##  
##                          ##

and then, look top-down and until the 1st encounter of a non-background character record the characters and then repeat them:

        ↓   ↓####             
        ↓  ##  P ##           
      4x↓ # ↓  P   #          
        ↓#  P  P    #         
        X   ↓  P     #        
       #↓   P  P      #       
      # ↓4x ↓  P       #      
     #  ↓   P  P        #     
    #   ↓   ↓  P         #    
  ##    P   P  P          ##  
##      ↓   ↓  P            ##

so for this the output would be

             ####             
           ########           
          #  ####  #          
         # ######## #         
        #    ####    #        
       #  ##########  #       
      #      ####      #      
     #   # ######## #   #     
    #     #  ####  #     #    
  ##    #  ########  #    ##  
##           ####           ##

Clarifications

• There can be any amount of leading/trailing lines with any amount of whitespace
• On each line there can be extra leading whitespace, as long as the amount is equal on all lines
• The width should be at least 50 characters total (excluding columns of only whitespace)
• The height should be at least 20 characters total (excluding lines of whitespace only)
• The repeating bottom parts must be cut from the bottom (or top) of the wave
• Inaccuracies due to rounding or floating-point errors can be dismissed
• The background character has to be constant
• The wave characters can be different, as long as they aren't ever equal to the background
• This is code-golf, the shortest code per language wins!

Sample outputs

                         XXXXXX
                       XXXXXXXXXX
                     XX  XXXXXX  XX
                    X  XXXXXXXXXX  X
                   X     XXXXXX     X
                  X  XXXXXXXXXXXXXX  X
                XX       XXXXXX       XX
               X    X  XXXXXXXXXX  X    X
              X      XX  XXXXXX  XX      X
             X     X   XXXXXXXXXX   X     X
            X            XXXXXX            X
           X      X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X      X
          X              XXXXXX              X
         X      XX     XXXXXXXXXX     XX      X
        X          X XX  XXXXXX  XX X          X
       X       X    X  XXXXXXXXXX  X    X       X
      X                  XXXXXX                  X
    XX        X   X  XXXXXXXXXXXXXX  X   X        XX
   X                     XXXXXX                     X
XXX          X     XX  XXXXXXXXXX  XX     X          XXX

..................................................
DCB....................QPONM....................10
...A9........0.......SRQPONMLK.......C........32
.....8..........X...T..QPONM..J...F..........4
......7.......Z...VU.SRQPONMLK.IH...D.......5
.......6...............QPONM...............6
........5......Y.W..TSRQPONMLKJ..G.E......7
.........4.............QPONM.............8
...................U.SRQPONMLK.I
..........3.......V.T..QPONM..J.H.......9
...........2....X....SRQPONMLK....F....A
............1..........QPONM..........B
.................W.UTSRQPONMLKJI.G
.............0.........QPONM.........C
..............Z...V..SRQPONMLK..H...D
...............Y....T..QPONM..J....E
...................U.SRQPONMLK.I
................X......QPONM......F
.................W..TSRQPONMLKJ..G
..................V....QPONM....H
...................U.SRQPONMLK.I
....................T..QPONM..J
.....................SRQPONMLK
.......................QPONM..................................
...
.
....

sandbox

• please suggest (or just edit in) ways of making this clearer
• Anything missing?
• Should I make this challenge take input, rather than being an broad kolmogorov-complexity challenge?

Answer 14

Pristine Pristige

A pristine program, as defined by Calvin'sHobbies, is

a program that does not have any errors itself but will error if you modify it by removing any contiguous substring of N characters, where 0 < N < program length.

Pristige is a language I designed in which all syntactically valid programs are pristine.

Pristige works just like Brain-Flak, except every function requires a airity declaration at the beginning. An airity of n is declared with n .s followed by a |. For example the Brain-Flak program

({}())

Is equivalent to the Pristige Program

(..|{|}(|))

In addition Pristige requires that there is only one function at the top level of the program. Meaning that

(.|{|}){.|(..|{|}[.|(|)])}

Is an invalid program.

To be absolutely concrete here is a grammar that spans all syntactically valid Pristige programs:

S → (A) : <A> : {A} : [A]
A → .AS : |

Task

You must write a compiler from Pristige to Brain-Flak, that is itself a pristine program.

This is a code-golf question so answers will be scored in bytes, with less bytes being better.

Rules

• You must either throw an error (or print error if your language cannot do so) if the inputted program is syntactically invalid.

• If the input is syntactically valid you must output an equivalent Brain-Flak program. The simplest way to do this is to remove all instances of . and |, but you are not required to do so.

• You may use any default IO format.

• Your program must be a pristine program. That means deleting any continuous substring must cause an error

Reference Implementation

Here will go an implementation I have not yet completed

Test Cases

Here will go test cases

Answer 15

Write a code poem programming-puzzle popularity-contest

It is said that Larry Wall, creator of Perl, wrote a poem titled "Black Perl" in said language, as shown here.

The poem is fully functional (working syntax, no runtime errors, etc. [no errors in general]).

The challenge:

In any language (practical languages recommended), write a haiku (example of one at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku).

Coding rules:

• The poem must be able to function properly (no errors).
• Unlike Wall's poem, you must run through the whole program (exits only at the end).
• If you define a function to act as a word, it will count towards your poem.
• Caught errors and other error-handling tricks are valid.

Misc rules:

• You cannot use multi-line strings or line continue symbols, etc. (No multi-line functions/tricks).
• Brackets, parentheses, and other grouping symbols (with the exception of < and > as operators are ignored unless as a string.

Example lines (written in Python, not the best, probably):

while i_love ....: # i_love counts as two words

i_am > than_you # read symbols/operators as words

"""my love for ...
is ....... by ...""" # Invalid, as stated by one of the misc. rules

me(,"john", "abby",
    "and liz") # invalid, line continuation

Winning:

This is a popularity-contest, so submission with the highest amount of votes wins.

For sandbox only:

How can I improve on this challenge? Is there anything else I should add? Let me know in the comments.

Answer 16

Challenge

Take a number and output it with 4 digits or less using letters and numbers. For example; 270,030 would turn into 2.7K.

Key

Billion -> B

Million -> M

Thousand -> K

Rules

• You may choose to accept input numbers that include commas delimiting every three decimal places (such as 123,456,789).
• Round to nearest, half-up.
• Numbers will only go up to a trillion.
• The mantissa part of the answer should be at least 1.
• All letters must be uppercase and as specified below.
• Outputs must be 4 or less characters wide.
• Outputs must be as mathematically precise as possible. Example:
  • 154,893 -> 100K NOT OK
  • 154,893 -> 155K GOOD
• If there are multiple outputs with the same mathematical precision, return the shortest one. (If they are the same length, you may return either.) Example:
  • 1000 -> 1000 NOT OK
  • 1000 -> 1K GOOD

Examples:

1,234,567 -> 1.2M
102 -> 102
1000 -> 1K
1001 -> 1001
100,000 -> .1M
12,345,678,912 -> 12B
1,452,815,612 -> 1.5B

Submissions

• This is code-golf, so the shortest solution in each language wins
• Standard Loopholes Apply

Answer 17

Bastion Breach

Stolen with permission from the minigame with the same title from Angels with Scaly Wings

Introduction and rules

• There are two players
• Both players receive a suit of cards (2-9, ace and face cards) and another is randomly shuffled into a public zone.
• The players then proceed to choose one of the cards in their hand to bid for the card. Once they've used a card, it can't be used again.
• The owner of the card with the highest value then gets a point.
• If the highest scoring card was in the middle or if the value of the highest cards is equal, nobody gets a point. That point then goes onto the next round and is awarded to the winner of that round.
• The ace is special: it wins against a face card, ties with another ace, and loses against a number card. Effectively the scoring system is reversed for the ace card.
• The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Input/Output format for bots:

At the beginning of each round, your bot will be called as a whole program and will receive input in the form cards-in-middle your-played-cards opponents-played-cards as command line arguments.

Example: 23456789JKQA 24 56 - The cards in the middle are 23456789JKQA, your played cards are 24 and your opponents are 56. Your opponent won both of the previous games and what you're bidding for is the card 4.

You will output a single character representing a card that you haven't already played. If it is invalid or you've already played it, you automatically forfeit the round. Valid outputs are the following characters: 23456789JQKA

Example scoring

Middle card: 2
Bot 1 card: 4
Bot 2 card: 5
Winner: Bot 2
----
Middle card: Q
Bot 1 card: K
Bot 2 card: 5
Winner: Bot 1
----
Middle card: Q
Bot 1 card: K
Bot 2 card: A
Winner: Bot 2
----
Middle card: Q
Bot 1 card: 6
Bot 2 card: 5
Winner: None, next round scores another point
----
Middle card: A
Bot 1 card: 2
Bot 2 card: J
Winner: Bot 1
----
Middle card: 5
Bot 1 card: K
Bot 2 card: 5
Winner: Bot 1
----
Middle card: 5
Bot 1 card: 2
Bot 2 card: 5
Winner: None, next round scores another point
----
Middle card: A
Bot 1 card: 9
Bot 2 card: J
Winner: None, next round scores another point

Scoring for regular cards: 23456789JQK

Scoring for the ace:

wins: JQK
draw: A
lose: 23456789

Submission

You should write your entry as

Bot Name, Language

Insert
Code
Here

Explanation/Random stuff here

Running the tournament yourself

The controller is available here (Sandbox: Not written yet). It can be ran with python3 controller.py or python controller.py depending on your path. It expects all the bots to be in the bots directory. You can get all the bots already entered with python get_answers.py or python3 get_answers.py

Other rules and information

• Bots are not allowed to use file storage.

• The competition will be Round Robin, all bots will play against all others and they will be ranked by the number of other bots they've won against.

  • A loss counts as nothing
  • A draw counts as one point
  • A win counts as two points

• The bot with the most points wins the game.

• The bot that wins the final game, to be ran on wins the tournament.

Sandbox notes:

• I have yet to create a controller for this though I'll probably be basing it off the one I did for the cake cutting contest
• I hope I've explained it well enough, it's a simple game and I want the barrier for entry as low as possible. I've tried fixing what I believe went wrong with the GOL challenge and feel that KOTHs work better when they have lots of bots.
• I have permission to post this from the developer of the game in question, see first line.
• Feedback on readability is very much appreciated and welcome

Answer 18

I'm sort of brainstorming a challenge. I'm not really paying attention to question format at the moment.

The challenge would be to generate and populate a Golf Scorecard.

The output would look something like this:

Hole    Par     Strokes Score
1       3       3       0
2       5       4       -1
3       4       5       1
4       3       4       1
5       4       4       0
6       5       3       -2
7       4       3       -1
8       3       5       2
9       5       5       0
Totals  36      36      0

A Par value would be generated by choosing a random number in [3, 4, 5].

A Stroke value would be generated by choosing a random number within some range (say -2/+2 or -3/+3) of Par. A Stroke can be no lower than 1.

Score = Stroke - Par

Total is adding up all the values in that column (not including Hole).

I'm wondering if it would be too much to ask to have the generated values be somewhat realistic (unlike my example output), in that Par values tend to be mostly 4, with about the same number between 3 and 5, and Stroke values tend to be close to or above Par, with it being very unlikely to be 1.

Answer 19

Fill to the line!

Given input consisting of the characters _, , and newline, fill the empty space up to the line!

Example:

I will use # as the filler character in the example.

1. Input
        
        
________
        
        
        
2. Fill up to the line, but not above.
        
        
________
########
########
########

• You may assume that the input either is rectangular (is padded), or consists only of the line and newlines.
• You may assume that there is only one straight, unbroken line.
• The whitespace above the line is part of the input. Do not fill above the line.

Test cases:

"
Input
"
"
Output
"
**********

"
    
    
    
----
    
    
    
    
"
"
    
    
    
----
####
####
####
####
"

**********

"
        
        
________
        
        
        
"
"
        
        
________
########
########
########
"

Answer 20

Comparing Strings

code-golf string

You will be given two non-empty strings containing printable ASCII. If their contents are exactly the same, output their contents. If their contents are different, output a third string. This third string cannot be a substring of either string, and neither string can be a substring of it.

Test Cases

Test cases are quoted to show they are strings. Outputs marked with * indicate they are one of infinitely many possible outputs.

input, input -> output

"test", "test" -> "test"
"do", "don't" -> "dnut"*
"ye s", "yes" -> "false"*
"yes", "yes" -> "yes"
"maybe", "mayue" -> "false"*
"false", "false" -> "false"
"false", "true" -> "fatr"*

Rules

• The inputs will be composed of only printable ASCII - that is, space to tilde. Your output should also be composed of only printable ASCII, but a trailing newline is allowed.
• Your algorithm may not make any assumption about the length of the inputs, except that they will not be empty.
• The output must be valid with probability 1; that is, you may generate random strings until one is valid, but you can't just output a random string and hope it's valid. Source
• Trailing newlines in output allowed (otherwise there will be no newlines - newlines are not in printable ASCII).

This is code-golf, so shortest answer in bytes wins.

Answer 21

Can you generate this random sequence for me?

Inspired by this question on Retrocomputing

I want to create a random generator that always returns a desired word. I desperately need this so I can hide some easter eggs. For science easter!

Input

A word, either in string format or an array or vector of characters. You can assume all lowercase and only the regular characters a-z.

Task

Write a full program or function that finds a seed such that when taking a random sample of letters, the desired word is output. The function then should return or save another full program or function that does the generating of this desired word.

Rules

• The returned function of program should use random sampling to create the output, so it is not allowed to hardcode (obligatory XKCD)
• The output can be written to file in the case of a full program or returned.
• Hiding an easter eggs is easiest when there is little code, so the shortest code wins.
• If there is no seed that generates the required output, your program is allowed to run forever.
• Standard codegolf rules and loopholes apply.

Example implementation:

> f <- function(string){
+     seed <- 1
+     set.seed(seed)
+     repeat{
+         seed <- seed + 1
+         set.seed(seed)
+         if(all(sample(letters, length(string), replace = TRUE) == string)){
+             break
+         }
+     }
+     generator <- function(){
+         set.seed(seed)
+         sample(letters, length(string), replace = TRUE)
+     }
+     return(generator)
+ }
> f("a")
function(){
        set.seed(seed)
        sample(letters, length(string), replace = TRUE)
    }
<bytecode: 0x000000001c83f2d8>
<environment: 0x000000001f906c20>
> g=f("a")
> g()
[1] "a"
> g()
[1] "a"
> g()
[1] "a"

Answer 22

Make it night! ^{_{popularity-contest image-processing}}

You just went on vacation to see some scenery in the beautiful night. Unfortunately, your alarm clock malfunctions and when you wake up, it's daytime.

Your mother would like to see some photos, but you can only take pictures in the day. You would like to be able to convert these daytime pictures to pictures in the nighttime.

Challenge

Given an image taken in the daytime, process it and turn it into night time as best as you can.

Sometimes it might be hard to do, like images that have a sun, but you can write your algorithm to remove the sun or do something else.

Example

(I did this by hand, so it might not be that good)

Voting

Please vote accordingly to how well the algorithms perform.

• Is the sky dark like a night sky?
• Does the picture look photoshopped/edited?
• Are there vivid colors that shouldn't appear in the night?
• If you were showed both images, would you believe that there was no processing?

(If you have a suggestion, please comment.)

Test Cases

Winning

Since this is a popularity-contest, the answer with the highest score (upvotes minus downvotes) wins.

Answer 23

Intertwined Polyglot

polyglot code-golf

Write a program which when executed as language A, produces a different program in language B, which in turn produces the name of language A. And the other way round (B to A to B).

+-----------+   Lang. A    +-----------+   Lang. B
| Program 1 | -----------> | Program 2 | -----------> "<Lang. A>"
|           |              +-----------+
|   Your    |              +-----------+
|  Program  | -----------> | Program 3 | -----------> "<Lang. B>"
+-----------+   Lang. B    +-----------+   Lang. A

Rules

• The produced programs must be unique both from each other, and from the original program.
• Uniqueness is defined as at least one modified or moved printing character. Example: a bc => ab c would not be considered unique, whereas a bc=> a cb would.
• The output may contain leading and/or trailing whitespace and/or newlines, so long as the language name is intact.
• Your program(s) may not take any input.
• This is code-golf, so fewest bytes wins.

Answer 24

Multiplicity of a Curve

code-golfmathpolynomialsabstract-algebrageometry

Given an polynomial p in two variables x and y as well as a point (u,v), determine the multiplicity m of the curve C = { (x,y) | p(x,y) = 0} at the point (u,v).

Details

• The degree of a monomial a * x^i * y^j in two variables is d = i+j.
• A polynomial is homogeneous if all its monomials have the same degree d.
• Any polynomial p (where d is the degree of p, i.e. the maximum of the degree of all its monomials) can uniquely be decomposed into a sum of polynomials p = p0 + p1 + ... + pd where each pk is homogeneous of degree k OR possibly zero.

• The multiplicity of a curve C given by the polynomial p at (u,v) can be determined using the following computation:

  • First decompose the polynomial p(x-u,y-v) (this is p with x,y replaced with x-u,y-v) into a sum of homogeneous polynomials as described above:

    p(x-u,y-v) = q0 + q1 + ... + qd
    

  • Then determine the minimal k such that qk is nonzero. Then the multiplicity is defined as m := k.

Example

Let us consider the polynomial p(x,y) = -x^2 - 4x + y^2 - 2y -3 and the point (u,v) = (-2,1).

p(x-u,y-v) = y^2 - x^3

So the decomposition is

p(x-u,y-v) = [0] + [0] + [y^2] + [-x^3]

Here the brackets are just used to highlight the homogeneous polynomials of each degree.

We see that y^2 is the nonzero polynomial of least degree, so m = 2

TODO

• add more testcases

Answer 25

Code the beach on the beach (heavily WIP)

The Gods of the Sea have seen your coding ability and asked you to rewrite their beach-generating program.

Code the beach

This program will take no input and, in this order:

• Print sand (.)
• Print ocean waves (~)
• Print crabs (>.<)
• Print seagulls (-v-)

This program will be run by the Gods of the Sea. They will run it once a day and will want a different beach every time they run it, so the beach items should be generated (pseudo)randomly.

To avoid this beach becoming overloaded, there should be:

• Between five and eight crabs
• Between three and seven seagulls
• Between eighty and one hundred grains of sand
• Eighty ocean waves

Your program should create the beach just as the Gods' existing program does. It will first draw the sand at the bottom of the screen, in the last three lines. Example sand:

. .. .. . . ... . ... ..  . ..  .... .. . ... . .. . .. . . .. . .. . . .... ...
  .. . .. .. .. .. ... .   ..  .. ... ...  .   .   ....... .... ...... ... .
. . . .. .. ...... ... .. ......... .  .... .. . . . . ... .. .. . . . ...

Then the waves will be printed, starting from the leftmost character in the fourth-to-last line. The point where the waves meet the sand should vary by at most one character, and waves should never go off the screen. All water that is not curling in a wave will cover the sand, so there can be no sand under the water. Example waves:

TODO: Add example waves

Crabs should be spawned in the last four lines and cannot be spawned on waves, because if they were, they would be quickly sucked under and disappear.

Seagulls may be spawned anywhere, and should be evenly distributed to the best of your pRNG's ability.

On the beach

The Gods were born in ancient times, so they're still using VGA; their terminal has 80x25 characters for output, as does their text editor - which is so old it does not support scrolling. Your program will have to fit in this text editor, so it will need to be small.

The Gods do not yet have the internet, so you'll have to write your program on the beach in a location they can see it. Unfortunately, the only convenient place at the moment is a very small sandbar on the Oregon coast. Waves occasionally reach this spot. To make sure you have enough time write the entire program before it's washed away, it will need to be as small as possible.

Furthermore, since the Gods are so far away, some characters written in the sand are indistinguishable. Gods are good at guessing, so if they see a character that looks like another they'll get it right, but another character that looks similar to the character they guessed will be assumed to be said previous character. So if a l is present in the source before an I, the Gods will see two ls.

Here are the lookalikes:

• o and O
• l and I and |
• : and ;
• " and '

The Gods don't have the technology to easily use Unicode characters, so you'll have to give them a lot of help. Each non-ASCII character you use will cost 5 bytes to describe it to them.

Answer 26

Numbers to Algorithms

Another horrible part of Cubically is attempting to print numbers when the notepad is occupied. Since you can't add up existing faces, the integer (or ASCII value) you have to print needs to be on one single face.

The maximum value you can store on one Cubically face is 45. This isn't great, but it's better than nothing. Your challenge is to write a program that automates the process of getting the values 0-45 onto the top face.

Your program will take an input number n and produce a Cubically code snippet as output. This Cubically snippet should achieve the task of getting all integers on the top face to sum up to n. If you don't yet know how Cubically works, go check out the repo. Here's a run-down of all you need to know.

Cubically is my esolang based on a Rubik's Cube. Its 3x3x3 memory cube is initialized like this (without the comments on the right):

   000
   000          top face
   000
111222333444    left, front, right, and back faces, respectively
111222333444
111222333444
   555
   555          down face
   555

It uses quarter turn notation, so RRLL turns the cube to look like this:

   505
   505
   505
111424333242
111424333242
111424333242
   050
   050
   050

Now the sum of the top face is 30. So if n is 30, RRLL would be a valid output.

In addition to quarter turn notation, you can send a subscript number to face turns to mean "turn the xth layer inwards from the [face] face, where x is the subscript number". So R1 would turn the cube to look like this:

Answer 27

Arbitrary base conversion

code-golf base-conversion

Given an integer n of any sign, output a list of digits of its representation in a given base b not in -1, 0, 1. If b is positive, n will be non-negative.

Rules:

• You may not use arbitrary base conversion built-ins like Jelly's b or 05AB1E's в.
• You may assume the input is valid, as above.
• All digits must be greater than or equal to 0 and strictly less than b.
• For zero you must return [].

Test cases

256, 10 -> [2, 5, 6]
256, -10 -> [3, 5, 6]
1000, 25 -> [1, 15, 0]
1000, -30 -> [2, 27, 10]
0, 300 -> [0]
1000, 1000 -> [1, 0]
18446744073709551615, 4 -> [3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]
18446744073709551615, -5 -> [3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 0, 1, 1, 4, 0, 2, 0, 4, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1, 4, 4]

Sandbox

Is this a dupe?

Answer 28

Bomberman

Given an input Bomberman board b, use the following characters to define the different bomberman tiles:

• X denotes the outer boundary of the board.
  • X is always in each of the four corners of the board.
  • X may only be on the boundaries of the board.
• - denotes an empty space.
  • When a bomb blows up over an empty space, it replaces it with *; and may continue.
• o denotes a blocker that is breakable.
  • When a bomb blows up over a breakable blocker, it replaces it with *; and stops.
• O denotes an impenetrable blocker.
  • When a bomb reaches an impenetrable blocker, it stops prior to it.
• 0-9 describes a bomb of n power.
  • When a bomb explodes it explodes in a plus pattern.
  • A bomb of 0 strength would be: *.
  • A bomb of 1 strength would be: * \n***\n *
  • And so on... 1-indexing is not okay because that would make the 9 bomb a 10 bomb.

---

Worked Example

An example board would be (without bombs):

XXXXXXXXXXXX
X----------X
X-oo---O---X
X--------O-X
X--OoO-----X
X----------X
X--O-------X
X-------O--X
-----o------
X---------OX
X--O---o---X
XXXXXXXXXXXX

If we were to add some randomized bombs to this board we would see:

XXXXXXXXXXXX
X----------X
X-oo-1-O---X
X--------O-X
X--OoO--0--X
X---1------X
X--O-3-----X
X-------O--X
--4--o------
X---------OX
X--O-2-o---X
XXXXXXXXXXXX

This should, when input to your program, output the following explosion pattern:

XXXXXXXXXXXX
X----*-----X
X-oo***O---X # This didn't get blocked, it's just a small explosion.
X----*---O-X
X-*O*O--*--X # This destroyed a brittle block.
X-****-----X
X-*O*****--X # This got hard blocked.
X-*--*--O--X
*******---** # Notice how it wraps, because there's no boundary.
X-*--*----OX
X-*O****---X # This got hard-blocked.
XXXXXXXXXXXX

---

Example 1:

Input:

XX
XX

Output:

XX
XX

---

Example 2:

Input:

X-O--X
-o2-o-
-1--1-
-o-2o-
X--O-X

Output:

X-O--X
-****-
******
-****-
X--O-X

---

Example 3:

Input:

X     X
 OOOO
  1114


X     X

Output:

X    *X
 OOOO*
*******
  ****
     *
X    *X

---

Rules

• Boards must be rectangular or square.
• Boards must have blockers on the corners of the rectangle/square.
• code-golfawesomeretro-ascii

More examples, soon. Is this good? Sandbox? What should I change?

Answer 29

Is Effort Inversely Correlated with Upvotes?

Inspired by this chat message and the subsequent conversation

Introduction

PPCG is infamous (famous?) for it's short golfing language answers that are showered with upvotes. But, are these short answers full of hard-core golfing, or are they just a few builtins that work? Do these answers take effort, and deserve upvotes, or are upvotes and effort inversely correlated?

The Challenge

To get some variables out of the way, x=effort, and y=votes

Your challenge is, given a question ID, output A if the question has a strong positive correlation between effort and votes, B if it has a weak correlation between efforts and votes, or C if it has a strong negative correlation between effort and votes. A may be any value never given as B or C, B may be any value never given as A or C, and C may be any value never given as A or B (You doubt have to have consistent values across runs, but the set of values for A must not intersect with B or C, etc.).

Defining Effort

Effort is an awfully complex concept, but for this challenge we will grossly simplify it to the number of significant edits. significant edits, in this context, will be the number of edits, by the question author, that occurred more than 1 minute after the previous edit (initial posting, in this case, counts as an edit).

Defining Votes

Votes is upVotes - downVotes.

Defining Correlation

For the sake of simplicity, will we use the least-squares regression line as our correlation model. If R^2 (the determination coefficient) is less than .3 (e.g. < 30% of the variation is explained by the model), we will say that there is weak correlation. If R^2 is greater than or equal to .3, we will say that the correlation is strong. Negative vs. positive correlation must be determined from the sign of R (the correlation coefficient).

What Points?

The data points that should be included in your regression are points of the form (votes, effort) for each answer in the given question.

Test Cases

//TODO

Specifics

• For the purposes of this challenge, you may access the api.stackexchange.com website. You may not shorten the URL with any out-of-language utilities (e.g. tinyurl, but you can still compress it if your language supports compression)
• You may not violate any standard loopholes
• You may take input and give output in any reasonable format
• You should exclude community wikis from your calculations

Meta

• Question is a work in progress
• Anyone have a good title
• How valid are my statistics?
• code-golf, stack-exchange-api

Answer 30

Word Problem Generator popularity-contest

Already exists here!

Word problems can be a great way to test comprehension of concepts, but they are pain to write. That's why you need to make a program that takes an equation (or set of equations), and makes a word problem out of them. For example, if the input is x+3=8, you can output, Mary has 3 more apples than Johnny. If Mary has 8 apples, how many does Johnny have?

The best answers for this challenge will be able to handle many different types of equations and randomly generate a variety of unique word problems. It might be o.k. if your program creates non-sensical word problems, as long as they describe the input equation/equation set and people like them.

Rules

• Submission must be no longer than 2000 bytes
• External files and URL's may be used to access word lists not specifically made for this challenge. You can also use libraries for parsing mathematical equations and sentence generation that were not specifically made for this challenge (WolframAlpha is acceptable). Inquire about other acceptable usage of external sources.
• Golfing is encouraged. Most popularity contests ask for readable code, but with a tight 2000 byte limit, I encourage golfing as much as possible (even using a golfing language), so that you'll have enough bytes remaining to create interesting word problems.

Examples

• atan(x) = 5/4 => "At what angle should Jan hit the soccer ball to hit a target 5 feet high and 4 feet away?"
• x+5 = y, 2(x-1) = y-1 => "Paul is 5 years older than Sally. Last year Paul was twice Sally's age. How old are Paul and Sally?"
• x = 6^2/4^2 => "How much more pizza is there in a 12 inch pizza than an 8 inch pizza?"

Submission

With your submission, you include the types of equations/equation sets it can handle (we'll assume that a,b,c,d,e,f,g refer to constants and t,u,v,w,x,y,z refer to variables).

As an example, let's say your program can only make 1 type of word problem: "How long will it take for a boat with speed a to catch up to a boat with speed b that is distance c ahead of the first boat?" In that case, you write that your program only handles equations of the form at = bt + c, so people will know to only test it with things like 5t = 3t + 2 or 4t = 2t + 1.

Furthermore, you should mention if your program can make multiple types of word problems for one type of equation/equation set. For example, an equation of the form a + bx = c could lead to word problems about the time it takes to get from one point to another, or the amount of a particular coin you need to reach a certain amount of money.

Likewise, mention other ways your program creates variety in generating word problems.

Finally, you can include some sample word problems your program has generated, and the equations they were for.

Minimum Requirements

The most basic acceptable solution should handle at least 1 equation/equation set with at least 1 variable, 1 constant, and 1 mathematical operation. Such a minimal program might only handle equations of the form x = a + 1. It might output word problems like, "If Jerry has a apples, and he picks 1 more, how many does he have now?" Obviously, you should not strive for the bare minimum.

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