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Word stays a word after taking away a letter
This is a repost of this challenge
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There is an old, popular riddle:
Find an English word with 8 letters that, taken away one letter, creates a ...
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Pairs at every distance
Given a list x of 2 or more integers, output whether there exists a pair of equal integers in x ...
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Bloons TD 6 Upgrade Paths code-golf number kolmogorov-complexity
The monkeys need help organizing their defense and have asked you, Benjamin the code monkey, to create a program that will list all ...
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Photosynthesis king-of-the-hill python
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You, a algae spore, have recently evolved the ability to walk. However, 3 others have just done the same thing. Can you use this new ability to your ...
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Do we delete invalid tips?
Yes if the answer is unfixable, because deleting unfixable, objectively incorrect, answers to questions would be beneficial even on Stack Overflow
(Note: this post is only about answers that are ...
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Implement Binary Exponentiation
Background
In programming, there is a recursive algorithm called binary exponentiation, which allows for large integer powers to be ...
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Compress Jelly's code page
code-golf kolmogorov-complexity
In this challenge, you'll print out the SBCS of Jelly, a popular golfing language. Its code page looks like this:
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Is it shuffled FizzBuzz?
A twin of this.
FizzBuzz is where a range of positive integers is taken, and numbers divisible by 3 are replaced with "Fizz", divisible by 5 with "Buzz" ...
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Fix my FizzBuzz
FizzBuzz is where a range of positive integers is taken, and numbers divisible by 3 are replaced with "Fizz", divisible by 5 with "Buzz" and divisible by 15 with &...
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Do we delete invalid tips?
Yes, demonstrably invalid tips should be deleted
Note the distinction between a "valid, but not very good" tip and a "demonstrably invalid" tip. The first is what downvotes are for,...
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Not-Roman-Numeral Addition
Tags: code-golfmathnumberroman-numerals
Write the shortest program or function that mimics the addition in this XKCD strip:
Input
Two positive decimal integers containing ...
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Which R version is it? It's Peanuts!
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This challenge will be based on an R language trivia: every release is named and it's a reference to Peanuts comic strips (see here and here).
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Parse this handy graph format
code-golf parsing graph-theory
There's a great number of ways to represent directed graphs like the following:
Most representations are tailored towards being easy to ...
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Perform division for fuzzy numbers
Objective
Given two positive "fuzzy" numbers (as defined below), perform division between them.
Definition
Here, a fuzzy number consists of two integers: \$...
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Language nominations for the "Learn You a Lang for Great Good" chat event
Retina
A regex-based lang. Sometimes competitive with the golfiest langs-- what Retina does well, it does really well.
Plus, solving problems with regex and string-rewriting is always fun!
Made by ...
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What's the difference between [source-layout] and [restricted-source]?
Thoughts on how to objectively categorise this sort of challenge
After thinking about this for a while, I think there are three main sorts of source-dependent challenges that we have:
There is a ...
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We should reverse [reverse-engineering]
Could be useful for programming-puzzles
Specifically, I've been thinking about ones that would require reverse-engineering how a language works in order to write a certain program in it. Not sure how ...
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Nest some addition
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Lambda calculus is a system of computation based entirely on functions: everything is a function, which can act on other functions. It is commonly written with ...
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What's the difference between [source-layout] and [restricted-source]?
First things first here's how I currently interpret these tags:
Restricted source
restricted-source is pretty simple, there is black box function1 which can take the source of a program and "...
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We should reverse [reverse-engineering]
Agreed, delete reverse-engineering
I think you make a solid case that the tag is currently not worth keeping: it is on a small number of questions, some of which are closed; the tag wiki info provides ...
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Draw the Progress Pride flag
code-golfgraphical-outputkolmogorov-complexity
Challenge
Create the image of a progress pride flag.
Output
Dimensions
Rules
Your program must (obviously) create the ...
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Enumerate the Microwave Timer
code-golf
Related
Sometimes when I use my microwave, I do a little trolling and enter times such as 2:90 instead of ...
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Goroawase Numeric Substitution
code-golf number
Goroawase numeric substitution is a common form of Japanese wordplay where homophonous words are associated with a given series of numbers to associate ...
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Language nominations for the "Learn You a Lang for Great Good" chat event
Egison
Egison is a functional programming language featuring its expressive pattern-matching facility.
Its pattern matching gives me a feeling of Mathematica. It can even matches against an infinite ...
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Is This Loss?
Given two shapes A and B in ASCII-art, determine if ...
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Seeing the queen's lasers
In chess, the queen piece can see arbitrarily far in each cardinal and intercardinal direction. What does this mean? Well, I'll show you with an ASCII drawing:
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Interpret BigTalk
Talk is a language which takes a single bit of input and has four commands:
00 If the accumulator is 0, set the accumulator to 0.
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The prime frog 🐸 -- Integrated.
From the original question, we make the following changes:
The "prime frog" is a strange animal that jumps between integers*, until it arrives on 3 or 19...
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Don't like the middles
There will be no winner on these question. Just for the fun of the challenge.
Your job will be to output every sequence of each 10 numbers, alternating between the evens and ...
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Push some numbers
Given a list of integers, apply the following rules to each element:
If n is even, move it to the back.
If n is odd, move it to the front.
Zero is considered even.
You may assume ...
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Flatten from the inside out
Say we have a ragged list
[
[1, 2],
[3,
[4, 5]
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And we want to flatten it by a layer, decreasing its depth by 1. We ...
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Compute the cophenetic correlation coefficient
Meta question at the end.
Background
The cophenetic correlation coefficient is used in bioinformatic to measure how close the distances of a tree are to ...
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