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Complete a Mystery Sequence II
This is an expanded version of nyxbird's challege.
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Given a sequence of three non-negative integers, determine the type of the sequence - whether it is ...
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Simplified canvas builtin
The golfing languages 05AB1E and Vyxal have a "canvas" builtin that draws a string on a ASCII grid. In this challenge, you'll be implementing a simplified form of ...
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Delete every other line from file
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Delete every other line from file
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Input file:
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Color theory auction deception kinda thing KotH
king-of-the-hill
In this game, bots will compete to collect color tiles, in order to get points for having partial or full rainbows, and/or multiple ...
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Find the biggest simplex
An n-simplex is a generalization of 'triangleness' in any dimension (specifically, it is the simplest shape requiring n dimensions). Starting with 0 dimensions, the named ...
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Round a number badly
In this challenge, you are going to round a number badly!
Round a number badly?
Oh, you don’t know how to do that? Let me explain:
Let’s assume the number has \$n\$ decimal places....
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Arrow Chain Reaction
code-golf grid
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Given a 2D grid of spaces, inactive arrows (lowercase udlr) and one active arrow (uppercase ...
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Does this count as hard-coding the output?
As the loophole states:
Unless the question is an obvious exception (the primary exception being those tagged kolmogorov-complexity
This question was not tagged Kolmogorov complexity but is ...
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Does this count as hard-coding the output?
If you understand the code (I don’t) and concluded it is hard‑coded, feel free to downvote it.
There is no need to “ask” others for permission.
According to my understanding the no‑hard‑coding‑rule ...
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The meta FAQ bloat
mousetail's answer has (more or less) been put into effect
There are now 9 questions on the site tagged with faq: the FAQ post itself, the 7 posts in mousetail's minimal FAQ proposal and the Sandbox ...
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Visualize "Destroying Democracy" code-golf grid
This MathPickle post poses an interesting problem about gerrymandering.
An n-by-n square grid is given, and all cells are initially painted ...
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Short Query, Long Answer
Give ChatGPT 4o a prompt to get it to generate as long a message as possible.
\$\text{Score} = {\text{Output Length}\over{\text{Input Length}}}\$
Highest score wins!
(Will add ...
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Sum term of a polynomial
Say we want to compute the sum of the polynomial \$p(x) = x + 2\$ for all integers between \$1\$ and some \$n\$. This is \$\sum_{x=1}^n (x + 2) = \sum_{x=1}^n x + \sum_{x=1}^n ...
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Merge sort with NaN
Merge sort is a sorting method using the follow steps:
Divide input into lists, each containing exactly 1 element.
Merge each pair of lists, leaving the last one alone if there ...
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Access a file when you are at some unknown depth in the directory tree
You have to specify an existing file or directory, like, say,
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Print ASCII, but don't code it!
Definitions
A printable ASCII character is any character from character 33 ! to character 126 ~ ...
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