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Answer 1

Decorate the Christmas Tree

Tags: code-golfascii-art

Intro

It's a week before Christmas and the your family just bought a Christmas tree. Your little sister has a box of ornaments which she wants you to decorate the tree with.

Challenge

Write a function or program to randomly decorate the tree with all the ornaments from the box. All possible arrangements of ornaments on the tree must have a non-zero probability of occurrence.

Input

1. height of the tree n
2. 'box' of ornaments (a string of printable ascii characters where each character represents an ornament) in which order doesn't matter. Also, you can assume that '#' will not show up as an ornament since it is used to draw bare branches.

Given the number of branches on a tree of size n is (n-1)^2 you can assume that the number of ornaments in the box will be less than or equal to the number of branches on the tree.

Example of a box of ornaments: o = '**@@***@@$$**OOOO....'. Since this string is 21 characters long it can only be valid input for n > 5.

Output

Print out the tree with its decorations

The tree is the following structure of ascii characters where n specifies the height of the tree:

//Tree where n=9                         //Tree where n=6
        #                                        #
       ###                                      ###
      #####                                    #####
     #######                                  #######
    #########                                #########
   ###########                                  |||
  #############
 ###############
       |||

Bare branches will always be represented with '#' and the bottom trunk is always ||| while centered with center character of each row.

Examples of output with ornaments:

//n=9, o='X@@X%%%**&&'                   //n=6, o='OO*X*X'
        #                                        O
       ##%                                      O##
      #X###                                    #X#*#
     ###@##%                                  *######
    #&#######                                #####X###
   #@######X##                                  |||
  #####%##*####
 ##*######&#####
       |||

Rules

• IO can be used with any convenient method.
• Standard loopholes are forbidden.
• This is code-golf, so smallest program wins!

Meta

• Is this too close to a duplicate?
• Are there any improvements or clarifications required?

Answer 2

For any integer a and any positive odd integer n the Jacobi symbol is defined as follows: $$ \left(\frac{a}{n}\right) = \left(\frac{a}{p_1}\right)^{\alpha_1} \left(\frac{a}{p_2}\right)^{\alpha_2} \cdots \left(\frac{a}{p_k}\right)^{\alpha_k} $$ where $$n = p_1^{\alpha_1}p_2^{\alpha_2}\cdots{p_k^{\alpha_k}}$$ is the prime factorization of n. The Legendere symbol is defined for all integers a and odd primes p as $$\left(\frac{a}{p}\right) = \begin{cases} 0 & \text{if $a \equiv 0 \pmod{p}$},\\ 1 & \text{if $a \not\equiv 0 \pmod{p}$ and for some integer $x$: $a \equiv x^2 \pmod{p}$},\\ -1 & \text{if $a \not\equiv 0 \pmod{p}$ and there is no such $x$}. \end{cases} $$

Your task is to write a function that will take two parameters: a and v, where a is a positive integer, and v is a list of n values. The function should return the index of the first value in v for which the Jacobi symbol is -1. For this challenge, you may assume that all values in the v array are odd primes, and are greater than or equal to a. The length of v will be between 4 and 100 values. If no value in v produces a -1 result for the Jacobi symbol, simply return the length of v.

Because each invocation of the function will execute very quickly, your function will be tested against a wide variety of inputs and the execution time will be summed. This process will be repeated 50 times and the best execution time will serve as your score. My machine is a 2018 Macbook Pro, with the following specs:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 FMA CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC MOVBE POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE SEGLIM64 TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C
machdep.cpu.leaf7_features: SMEP ERMS RDWRFSGS TSC_THREAD_OFFSET BMI1 HLE AVX2 BMI2 INVPCID RTM SMAP RDSEED ADX IPT SGX FPU_CSDS MPX CLFSOPT
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536MB
RAM: 32GB 2400MHz DDR4

fastest-code

Answer 3

Even-Odd chunks

(Inspired by the Keg utility of this challenge)

Given an input string, e.g. s c 1= e(a"E"), split the input into even-odd chunks.

Example

This input string, when mapped to its code points, yields the list [115, 32, 99, 32, 49, 61, 32, 101, 40, 97, 34, 69, 34, 41]. When applied modulo-2 for every item, this returns [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1].

In this list let's find the longest possible chunk that is consistent with even and odd code points:

[1, 0, 1, 0, 1], [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]

For the first chunk, this yields [1, 0, 1, 0, 1] because this is the longest chunk that follows the pattern

Odd Even Odd Even Odd Even ...

or

Even Odd Even Odd Even Odd ...

. Adding another codepoint into [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1] breaks the pattern, therefore it is the longest possible even-odd chunk that starts from the beginning of the string.

Using this method, we should split the input into chunks so that this rule applies. Therefore the input becomes (the ; here is simply a separator; this can be any separator that is not an empty string):

s c 1;= e(a"E")

Rules

• This is code-golf so the shortest solution wins. Let it be known that flags don't count towards being in the pattern. They also don't count towards byte count in this challenge.

Answer 4

Convert Character Substrings to Numeric

I often have to take character data and categorize it numerically. A common thing I do is to take character type variables and convert them to numeric type characters, keeping same categories according to the level of work I'm doing. (The longer the substring, the more in depth, shorter substrings for broad level). Enough backstory...

The challenge: In as few bytes as possible, convert the input part A, a vector/list of unique strings, into the output, a vector/list of numbers, keeping unique categories within the length of substrings the same length, which is input part B.

Input:

1. w, Vector/list of unique strings of equal character length. n <= 10

   • These strings may be any combination of uppercase letters and numbers. Sorry if it seems my examples follow a pattern, I just created them after a similar pattern I see in the data I work with.

2. s, where 1 <= s <= n

Output: May take input and output in the same order, or you can convert alphabetically, but output in the same order. See example 2. (I've included comments in my output to clarify, this is not required)

Example Input 1:

#Already alphabetized, but this input is not always guaranteed

s = 3, w = 
[ABC01, 
 ABC11,
 ABC21,
 ABD01,
 ABE01,
 ABE02,
 ACA10,
 ACA11,
 ACB20,
 ACB21]

Example Output 1:

[1, #ABC
 1, 
 1, 
 2, #ABD
 3, #ABE
 3, 
 4, #ACA
 4, 
 5, #ACB
 5]

Example Input 2: s = 4, w =

[X1Z123,
 X1Z134,
 X1Y123,
 X1Y134,
 X1Y145,
 X1Y156,
 X1X123,
 X1X124,
 X1X234,
 X2Z123,
 X2Z134,
 X2Z222,
 X2Z223,
 X2Z224]

Example 2 Output:

#Categorize by order
[1, #X1Z1
 1,
 2, #X1Y1
 2,
 2,
 2,
 3, #X1X1
 3,
 4, #X1X2
 5, #X2Z1
 5,
 6, #X2Z2
 6,
 6] 

OR if conversion follows alphabetical formatting,

#Categorize alphabetically, but output in same order as input.
[6, #X1Z1
 6,
 5, #X1Y1
 5,
 5,
 5,
 3, #X1X1
 3,
 4, #X1X2
 1, #X2Z1
 1,
 2, #X2Z2
 2,
 2] 

Answer 5

Partial tq interpreter code-golf interpreter

In this task you are expected to provide a list output given an input tq program. The tq programs will not contain whitespace inside them. (I find tq extremely difficult to implement within a short time, therefore I consider it to be a nice challenge.)

What is tq, in the first place?

tq is a lazy-evaluated language that is designed with the idea that array items should be accessable during the definition of them. In tq, there is no explicit separator of an array, only special arrangements of monadic/dyadic functions and nilads.

The following program is a program printing [123] (Pretend that tq doesn't support strings because we aren't dealing with them in this case):

123

This defines a list with the first item being the number 123, after which all items in the list will be outputted inside a list.

In tq, numbers are supported to allow multiple-digits. So this defines a list with 2 items:

12+12,5

In this test case, you are expected to output the list [24,5]. Let's explain it step by step.

12+12   # This evaluates 12 + 12 in the current item in the list, returning 24
     ,  # A separator. This separates two items when they could be potentially
        # ambiguous when they are applied without a separator.
      5 # This evaluates 5 in the current item in the list, returning 5
        # The comma is simply a no-op that doesn't require parsing.

So you think that tq is not hard at all to implement? Well, remember that tq also has a special feature of accessing the items in an array before the array is defined!

555th123

We introduce two new atoms:

• t (tail) means access the last item in the list
• h (head) means access the first item in the list

Therefore our list is going to yield:

[555,123,555,123]

Now take a look at this program:

555ps123

We introduce 2 more atoms:

• p Yield the next item before (previous) the current position
• s Yield the next item after (succeeding)the current position

This yields the list:

[555,555,123,123]

A quick reference of the tq language

Just assume that you only have two operands for the operators.

• [0-9] starts a number. Numbers will only be positive integers, i.e. no decimals and negative numbers.
• , This is a separator of different items when it is given that two consecutive indexes will be ambiguous with each other without a separator. In tq all of the remaining characters can act as a separator, but in this case it is a good idea to implement only , for the ease of your implementation.
• + and * These are arithmetic operators. Usually in tq, they may be applied multiple times, e.g. 1+2+3, but in your implementation, input will be provided so that this will not happen and only 1+2 will happen (there will not be applications multiple times).
• t return the last item in the list. If the code is t1,2,3 it shall return [3,1,2,3].
• h return the first item in the list. If the code is 1,2,3h it shall return [1,2,3,1].
• p returns the item before the current item. If the code is 0,1,p,3,4 the code shall return [0,1,1,3,4].
• s returns the item after the current item. If the code is 0,1,s,3,4 the code shall return [0,1,3,3,4].

More test cases

• 4p*p will yield [4,16]
• 1p+s2 will yield [1,3,2]
• 1,2,3h+t4,5,6 will yield [1,2,3,7,4,5,6]
• 3ppss6 will yield [3,3,3,6,6,6]
• You also have to implement multiple hops. E.g. 1th should yield [1,1,1]
• If you know that something is going to form a loop, e.g. 1sp2, the cells that form the loop should be removed. Therefore the previous example will yield [1,2].
• Out of bounds indexing will yield the closest index of the indexed item that is a number. E.g. 1,2s should yield [1,2,2]

Answer 6

Internal Truth Machine code-golf

It's a normal truth machine but instead of taking input, it uses the first character of the program. Thus, internal.

Example: 0abcd prints 0 and halts, and 1abcd prints 1 infinitely.

Answer 7

Balanced interval tree code-golf fastest-algorithm

You will write a balanced, online interval tree.

• A function, method, or procedure that performs insertion into a query of intervals that overlap with an interval over a, b in O(log n) time, given that a is less than b, including:
  • intervals that fully enclose a, b
  • intervals fully within a, b
  • intervals that start to the left of a but end before b
  • intervals that start to the right of a but end after b
• A function, method, or procedure that performs insertion ov an arbitrary interval a,b into a data structure in O(log n) time
• Both O-bounds must hold after arbitrary series of insertions and queries

Requirements

If you write non-method functions, your submission may take the data structure as a global variable or receive the data structure as the first parameter.

You must informally prove your submission falls within the required O-bounds or name the data structure your program implements. If the name of the data structure you are implementing is obscure, you may name the paper of the data structure.

This is code-golf, so the submission with the shortest length in bytes wins.

Answer 8

Posted: Find the Inverse Neighbor Pairs code-golfnumber-theory

Answer 9

floating-point error matters

Write a expression of floating-point numbers in any languages. When calculating the expression without floating-point errors (as what a human do), it should be 0. But with floating-point errors (as what happened in your language), it yield 1 instead.

• Floating-point numbers are some numbers which store a finite number digits (binary or decimal or in any other bases) of fraction, plus an exponent in computer. It may be IEEE 754, but not must be.
• Loss of precision due to integer types (which do not has a exponent) are not allowed in the expression. You are still allowed to include integers (or even other types) in your expression as long as operations such as rounding into an integer are not the root of errors.

Shortest codes win as code-golf.

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Sandbox:

• Is there any duplicates here?
• Is asking for an expression instead of full program allowed?

Answer 10

No title yet.

By Zekendorf's theorem every non-negative integer has a unique representation as the sum of Fibonacci numbers where no two numbers coincide or are adjacent.

In The minimum fibonacci challenge! the challenge was to output the list of Fibonacci numbers. However, you can instead consider the list of coefficients of the sum \$ \small x_0F(2) + x_1F(3) + x_2F(4) + \ldots \$ (since \$ \small F(0) = 0 \$ and \$ \small F(1) = F(2) \$ never appear in the Zekendorf representation) and represent that as a binary number \$ \ldots x_2 x_1 x_0 \$, e.g. \$ \small 67 = \small 1F(2) + 0F(3) + 1F(4) + 0F(5) + 1F(6) + 0F(7) + 0F(8) + 0F(9) + 1F(10) \$ which we can represent using the binary number \$ \small 100010101 \$ or \$ \small 277 \$ in decimal.

We can readily convert the binary representation back into the original integer by calculating the sum of the relevant Fibonacci numbers. However, I would like you to, given an input integer \$ \small n \$, output the decimal integer whose binary representation encodes the Zekendorf representation of \$ \small n \$ in this way.

This is code-golf, so the smallest function or program that breaks no standard loopholes wins!

Answer 11

Be second to last

This is a king-of-the-hill challenge with a game with a clear winning strategy, but the winner is not the one who comes in first, but the one who comes in second to last! While losing is easy (just throw every game), just barely not losing is quite a task.

The Game

The bots will be made to play games of normal Nim against each other. The rules are as follows:

• The board consists of a list of unsigned integers
• In alternating turns, the players reduce one non-zero element by an amount of their choosing, as long as the element is not negative afterwards
• The player who reduces the list to all entries being 0 wins

The length of the Nim list and its entries will be randomly determined for each game.

The Tournament

All bots will compete against each other in a Danish-Style tournament:

• Initially, players are assigned positions in a list randomly
• After each round, the list is sorted by the amount of wins with an order-preserving method
• In each round, the players with the odd numbers play against those with the following even numbers (so 1st against 2nd, 3rd against 4th, and so forth)
• If the number of players is odd, the one in the middle position has a bye and is given 1 win without playing.
• The tournament ends after \$\lceil \log_{2}(N_{Players}) \rceil\$ (Binary logarithm of the number of players, rounded up) rounds.

The player in the second to last position of the list counts as the total winner of the tournament.

King of the Hill

Each time the contest is run, 100 tournaments are played. The bots with the highest number of being second to last is the overall winner.

Challenge Rules

• Each bot is a Python 3 class implementing the following functions:
  • __init__(ID, n) passes the bot its randomly assigned ID for this tournament, and the total number of players.
  • nim(self,list) which takes in the Nim board state and returns a tuple (index, amount), specifying from which list index to subtract what number. This function is repeatedly called during each game of Nim played, until a winner has been determined.
  • rank(self,IDs,scores) which takes in the current order of ranking in the tournament, and the list of scores of each bot, ordered by ID. It returns nothing. This will be called for each bot after each round of tournament, as well as before the first round, to provide the ranking information if the bot requires it.
• Bots are explicitly allowed to implement further functions and store data for private use. Bots will only be deleted and re-initialized after each full tournament.
• Programming meta-effects are forbidden, meaning any attempts to directly access other bots' code, the Controller's code, causing Exceptions or similar. Any bot doing so is disqualified until fixed.
• The following will also be set up to cause Exceptions:
  • nim returning an index of which the element is already 0
  • nim return an amount larger than the element at that index
• Other languages are allowed only in case they can be easily converted to Python 3.
• Class names have to be unique
• Multiple bots per person are allowed, but only the latest version will be taken of iteratively updated bots.
• As per Standard Loopholes, copies of bots are not allowed. This includes bots who differ from other bots only by a trivial change in strategy (e.g. a change in the pseudorandom seed).

Controller and Examples

Watch this space.

Answer 12

Find the most important character

code-challengerestricted-sourcestring

The challenge is to write a program that outputs the most occurrent non-trivial* character in the input string, excluding these bracketing characters ()[]{}. A solution is scored by feeding the program's source into its input. Bracketing characters are allowed in the program, but may not be selected by the program as the most occurrent character. In cases where letters have the same percentile score, any of the characters can be returned, or all of them.

Write a program that has a maximal percentage of a single non-trivial* character, excluding these bracketing characters ()[]{}. Bracketing characters are allowed, but may not be selected as the highest-percentage character. Answer is scored as by running the program, with the program's source as its own input. In cases where letters have the same percentile score, any of the characters can be returned, or all of them.

*Non-trivial is defined in this case to be a character that contributes to the functionality of the program. If the character can be removed without influencing how the program runs, it is a trivial character.

Scoring

Score is determined as follows:

$$(\frac{n_{char}}{n_{total}}) * 100\% $$

With n_char being the number of occurrences of that character in the input, and n_total being the total number of non-trivial characters in the input. With this scoring criteria, all scores should be within the range (0,100]

Highest scoring solution per language wins.

Input

Solutions should take in any valid string as input. Scoring is done using the program's source code as input(with all non-trivial charcters removed).

Output

A single character with the highest percentage occurrence. Each solution should be capable of outputting standard ASCII, as well as the language's codepage (if applicable).

Errata

Creative solutions are encouraged. Boring solutions with long padded strings substituted in for numbers are discouraged. Standard loopholes are disallowed.

Examples

Program:

aabbbc

Output:

b

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Program:

aabb

Output:

a or b or ab

Answer 13

Shift the digits code-golf integer arithmetic restricted-time

Here, x (supplied as input) and n (the result of your computation) are both positive integers. n * x = n shifted. Find n.

Here's an example of shifting:

123456789 -> 912345678
abcdefghi -> iabcdefgh (letters = any 0~9 digit)
123       -> 312

Rules

• Preceding zeros count after shifting. If the number is 10 and is multiplied by 0.1 (0.1 isn't a valid input), the result is 1, which isn't equal to 01 (10 after shifting).
• Your code has to run on Try It Online without timing out.
• If your number only has one digit, the shifted result is your number:

1 -> 1
4 -> 4
9 -> 9

Test cases

Just to show that it's possible ...

9 -> 10112359550561797752808988764044943820224719
(In this test case, x = 9 and n = 10112359550561797752808988764044943820224719.
n shifted = n * x =              91011235955056179775280898876404494382022471)

Don't believe it? Try it online.

Answer 14

Posted here

Answer 15

Approximate Alternating Triangles

Answer 16

Japanese Encoding Conversion code-golfencoding

Answer 17

Answer 18

Making Minimial Memory Masterpieces

In this challenge you will be asked to write a small computer program to paint an approximation of the painting Fine Wind, Clear Morning.

Your submission

In this challenge we are going to start with a blank canvas. We are going to add an "ant" in the top left corner. You will be telling the ant how to paint the picture by writing its brain.

An ant is a simple creature, at a given time it knows two things.

• Some memories that it has

• The color of the pixel it is currently standing on

And at every step the ant consults these two things it knows and then

1. Draws one pixel of any color where it is standing

2. Moves one pixel in a cardinal direction

3. Replaces its all of its memory

The ant can thus be thought of as a function which takes a color and a value and spits out a color, a value and a cardinal direction.

For example here is the brain of an ant that draws a zigzag pattern in red

\$ f(c,m) = \left\{\begin{matrix}(\mathrm{Red}, & \mathrm{South}, & 1) & \mathrm{if} & m = 0\\ (\mathrm{Red}, & \mathrm{East}, & 0) & \mathrm{if} & m = 1\end{matrix}\right. \$

However our canvas is not infinite, so this ant would run into a border eventually. We will stop the ant if it tries to move off, by canceling its move and leaving it on the square it is on. You are free to use this behavior to your advantage.

The one issue here is that currently the ant will never stop, it will just keep painting forever. Which is why ants come with a builtin kill switch. When an ant's memories are equal to an exact value the ant explodes or something, ending the drawing.

Your submission will thus consist of 3 things

• The starting memory for your ant

• A description of the ant's function (more on this later)

• The ending memory for your ant

Scoring

The goal of this challenge is to have the ant that requires the least memory to operate. We will count this by the number of different states your ant's memory can have.

Thus to score your answer you should run it on the canvas provided. Once the ant has finished your score will be the total number of distinct memories used by your ant through the process. We will include the initial memory even if it does not appear again, but you should not count the ending memory (the one that kills the ant).

The lowest score will be the winner.

The painting

The painting will be a low resolution version of the one from the wikipedium. It will use 3 bit color resolution.

I will decide on the exact specific sizes and make the image in a bit.

A valid answer must produce this image exactly when run on the canvas.

Verification Tool

I will make a tool for running and verifying programs, using a standardized format. It will be runnable in browser.

Answer 19

Answer 20

Golf yourself a real calculator [draft] code-golf arithmetic

We will only cover the characters(0123456789+-*/=%ñ) in our tutorial.

The = operations

Unlike most desktop calculators, our household calculator is a tacit language. Therefore it is able to do a lot more than other infix calculators.

Take a simple calculation as an example. The non-scientific calculator does not have the exponentiation operator. What do you do to calculate 2^5?

2*2====

However, there's a shortcut for doing that. Since 2 is already in the expression buffer, you can simply do

2*====

The calculator automatically fills in the current expression during the inputting.

Here is a demonstration of how this works:

(A template for easy copy&paste.

Pressed Key      : 
Expression buffer: 
Output buffer    : 
)

Pressed Key      : 2
Expression buffer: 2
Output buffer    : 2

Pressed Key      : *
Expression buffer: 2 *
Output buffer    : 2

Pressed Key      : =
Expression buffer: * 2
Output buffer    : 4

Pressed Key      : =
Expression buffer: * 2
Output buffer    : 8

Pressed Key      : =
Expression buffer: * 2
Output buffer    : 16

Pressed Key      : =
Expression buffer: * 2
Output buffer    : 32

Implicit 0 before calculation

Suppose you enterede the following expression:

*1

Now, don't get me wrong, the household calculator of course doesn't have pointers. So, why doesn't it raise a syntax error though? (The output is 0 by the way.) Here's why.

The calculator initially has the expression starting at 0, therefore it prepends a 0 to the expression. Therefore the full form of our expression is:

0*1

What we've learned so far

• The output buffer is a part of the calculator storing the latest-evaluated integer. All entered numbers get appended to the output buffer as well as the expression buffer.
• The expression buffer is a part of the calculator storing the latest instruction. After a = operator, it stores the latest applied expression for later application.
• The = operator tries to evaluate the instruction buffer. If that's a syntax error, it tries to evaluate that concatenated the output buffer. If that still fails, it tries to evaluate the output buffer concatenated with the instruction buffer. After that operation, the expression starting from the newest-entered dyadic operator is saved in the expression buffer.

Answer 21

RRE numbers code-golf decision-problem number string

Given a single floating-point number (which can potentially be taken as a string), output whether this decimal is an RRE number.

RRE complement for the input number

Say your input is 3.14.

1. Replace the decimal point by the fraction bar. 3/14
2. Reciprocal the fraction. 14/3
3. Evaluate the fraction. 4.666...
4. Round the decimal point to the same length as the input. 4.67
5. If the absolute difference between the input and the output is below 2, it's an RRE number. Otherwise, it isn't an RRE number.

Specification

1. Programs are allowed to give wrong output if the absolute difference is very close to 2.
2. The integral part of the decimal is always nonzero.
3. Truthy/Falsy outputs follows the language's convention, or exactly one value for truthy and another for falsy.

Test cases

Here is a sample program I use to generate the test cases.

1.0     -> True
2.9     -> True
3.14    -> True
50.2501 -> True
2.14    -> False
2.11111 -> False
3.1     -> False
51.123  -> False
51.51   -> False
24.12   -> False

Answer 22

Are these the same time? code-golf time decision-problem

Context

When asked about the time (i.e. hours and minutes), people naturally reply with any one of a given set of fairly common sentences:

• (A) it is M past H
• (B) it is M to H
• (C) it is H minus M

Where M above refers to some amount of minutes and H to some amount of hours. Concrete corresponding examples, all referring to the time 3:40 pm:

• (A) it is 40 past 3
• (B) it is 20 to 4
• (C) it is 4 minus 20

Task

Given two of these sentences, output a Truthy value if they represent the same time and a Falsy value if they do not.

Input

Your input will be two sentences of the above, where references to minutes will always be rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 (i.e. the minutes will always be one of 5, 10, 15, 20, ..., 50, 55.

Because all sentences start with "it is " you may ommit that from your input sentences.

Output

A Truthy value if the two times are the same, a Falsy value otherwise.

Test cases

Here is a sample program for checking the test cases.

Sandbox

Should the minutes and hours in the input com as integers instead of English words?

Answer 23

\$\Theta(N\cdot\sqrt N)\$ sort code-golf restricted-complexity array-manipulation

The challenge is to write a program that sorts an array of distinct positive integers in ascending order. You may input the array and output the result using the default IO methods.

However, the worst-case time complexity of the algorithm used must be \$\Theta(N \cdot \sqrt N)\$, where \$N\$ is the length of the input array.

You may not assume your built-in sorting functions to have any time complexity in particular. While you can implement a fast (e.g. \$O(N \log N)\$) sort and then perform pointless operations to increase the complexity, direct algorithms exist.

This question is tagged code-golf, so the shortest code wins!

Sandbox stuff

I have noticed that a possible solution is, for example, to create a sorted multiset from the array and read it back. I would probably like to disallow that. Is there a way to achieve that without making the validity criteria subjective?

Answer 24

Similar Numbers code-golf number

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Answer 25

Modify The Stack code-golf stack

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Answer 26

Compactify the input compression code-golf string

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Answer 27

How Many Ways To Empty The Glove Box?

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Answer 28

Compress Numbers

Write two programs, a compressor and a decompressor.

The compressor

• The compressor will accept a sequence of integers of any value from 0 to 2⁶³-1, expressed in any convenient format.
• You may specify the required format as long as any arbitrary sequence of integers in the required range may be expressed in this format.
• Behaviour is undefined for any input that does not conform to your required format.
• The output will be a self contained sequence of bytes.

The decompressor

• The input will be an unmodified sequence of bytes produced by a valid input to the compressor.
• Behaviour is undefined for any other sequences of bytes.
• The output will be the same input to the compressor program that produced the provided sequence of bytes.

Judging

The winning entry will be the valid entry that produces the smallest intermediate sequence of bytes for a sequence of integers that will be produced by the question setter that will be revealed after some number of entries have been submitted and only entries submitted prior to that reveal will be eligible to win.

This sequence will be generated by joining these following sequences into a single sequence and then randomly shuffling that single sequence.

• 1000 repetitions of the same randomly selected number from 0 to 9.
• 1000 repetitions of the same randomly selected number from 2⁶² to 2⁶³-1.
• For each x in (8, 16, 32, 63):
  • 1000 random numbers from 0 to 2^x-1.

The question setter will answer the challenge with GZIP/GUNZIP at the highest compression setting with no additional processing. If that entry wins, the glory of winning will belong to the authors of GZIP.

Tie-Breaker

If two or more entries produce produce byte sequences of the same size, the following criteria will decide the winner:

1. If one of those entries is the GZIP entry posted by the question setter, that entry will win.
2. The entry with the highest voting score wins.
3. The entry posted first wins.

Answer 29

Reconstruct an image from columns graphical-output

You are given an image with all pixel-wide columns shuffled. The challenge is to attempt to reconstruct the image.

[image gallery of varying difficulties]

Sandbox stuff

popularity-contest or code-challenge (probably asking for fewest inversions)?

Random thought: if rearranging the pixels was similar to the assignment problem, this seems to be similar to the traveling salesman problem.

Answer 30

A065825 code-golf sequence arithmetic

(This is A065825.) The sequence defaults apply, so you can pick another format other than this one.

Given an input integer n, find the smallest number k so that there exists an n-item subset of {1,...,k} where no three items form an arithmetic progression.

Procedure

Here, we calculate A065825(9).

We assume you have already looped from 1 to 19, and k=20 (it's just an example).

1. Generate a range from 1 to k.

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20]

2. Pick n items from that sequence, following the original order of the sequence.

[1 2 6 7 9 14 15 18 20]

3. No 3 items form an arithmetic progression.

If a sequence has arithmetic progression, it basically means the sequence has the same step between every two consecutive items.

For example, the sequence of positive even numbers ([2 4 6 8 ...]) has a consistent step (i.e. 4-2=2, and 6-4=2, etc.), so it has arithmetic progression.

The Fibonacci sequence ([1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ...]) does not have arithmetic progression, since it does not have a consistent step. (3-2=1, 5-3=2, 8-5=3, etc.)

As an example, let's pick 3 items from our generated sequence.

[1 2 6 [7 9 14] 15 18 20]

The picked 3-item sequence does not have arithmetic progression, since the differences are respectively 9-7=2 and 14-9=5.

This has to apply to every 3-item pair:

[[1 2 6] 7 9 14 15 18 20] (2 -1 =1, 6 -2 =4)
[1 [2 6 7] 9 14 15 18 20] (6 -2 =4, 7 -6 =1)
[1 2 [6 7 9] 14 15 18 20] (7 -6 =1, 9 -7 =2)
[1 2 6 [7 9 14] 15 18 20] (9 -7 =2, 14-9 =5)
[1 2 6 7 [9 14 15] 18 20] (14-9 =5, 15-14=1)
[1 2 6 7 9 [14 15 18] 20] (15-14=1, 18-15=3)
[1 2 6 7 9 14 [15 18 20]] (18-15=3, 20-18=2)

Here are some examples of picking non-consecutive items from the output sequence:

[1 [2] 6 [7] 9 [14] 15 18 20] (7-2=5,14-7=7)
[[1] 2 6 [7] [9] 14 15 18 20] (7-1=6,9 -7=2)

If the above is satisfied for k, then k is a valid output for A065825(9).

Meta

Do you think this challenge should be splitted into separate challenges? It seems that it is a single sequence on OEIS.

Test cases

Here is a reference program I use to check my test cases.

n       a(n)
1       1
2       2
3       4
4       5
5       9
6       11
7       13
8       14
9       20