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Nathan Merrill

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Pleasant Grove, UT, United States

127 Answers

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43 votes

Do submissions have to be answered with a programming language?

answered Oct 26, 2016 at 15:10

31 votes

Is "Proof-Golf for proofs in general" on-topic?

answered Jul 24, 2018 at 4:32

21 votes

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Do all challenges have to be answered with code?

answered Jan 21, 2015 at 14:23

19 votes

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Are we allowed to use empty input we won't use when no input is asked (regarding functions)?

answered Jun 2, 2017 at 18:17

17 votes

Create an OEIS Tag

answered Jul 9, 2015 at 12:33

17 votes

Code Golf Jeopardy

answered Nov 13, 2016 at 13:55

16 votes

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Reposts of answer-chaining challenges

answered Jan 3, 2017 at 2:35

14 votes

New Tag for Code-Modifying Challenges

answered May 19, 2015 at 16:04

14 votes

How could the default close reasons be improved?

answered Feb 7, 2017 at 15:50

14 votes

In machine code, is using "illegal" opcodes a valid crack?

answered Nov 15, 2017 at 13:16

14 votes

Is a regex answer valid if it gives the reciprocal of the required output?

answered Feb 24, 2019 at 7:10

13 votes

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A Close-Vote is clearly not a Super-Downvote! What to do with challenges that are wrongly closed but also widely-disliked?

answered Mar 28, 2018 at 14:22

13 votes

Code Bowling Index

answered Mar 12, 2017 at 4:45

13 votes

Tour to Improve the Discoverability of Old Challenges

answered May 2, 2016 at 21:05

12 votes

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Can JS answers require the code to be run at a certain domain?

answered Aug 8, 2017 at 13:27

11 votes

Tips for King of the Hill challenges

answered Jun 16, 2017 at 2:12

11 votes

Are pure programming puzzles on topic?

answered Feb 28, 2016 at 13:28

10 votes

Can I ever answer with a language invented after the challenge was posted?

answered Mar 18, 2015 at 3:21

10 votes

Is [answer-chaining] a self-contained winning criteria tag?

answered Aug 22, 2017 at 14:39

9 votes

Tour of PPCG: Voting Phase

answered May 9, 2016 at 14:47

9 votes

PopCons and Graphical Output

answered Jun 17, 2016 at 16:29

9 votes

Best of PPCG 2016 — Call for Categories

answered Dec 29, 2016 at 15:26

8 votes

For compression-related challenges, should we take steps to level the use of 7-bit and 8-bit character sets?

answered Jan 6, 2017 at 9:57

8 votes

Can serious contenders do more than the challenge asks for?

answered Dec 8, 2016 at 17:17

8 votes

Ethics of Golfing in Assembly or other extremely uncommon languages

answered Aug 31, 2019 at 23:32

7 votes

Are baseline submissions serious contenders?

answered Jan 16, 2018 at 15:39

7 votes

Should we disallow non-observable requirements?

answered Jan 9, 2017 at 16:16

7 votes

Move the sandbox to main

answered Jun 30, 2015 at 17:27

6 votes

Who are you? Why are you here? And more introspection

answered Jan 17, 2016 at 5:45

6 votes

Tour of PPCG: Voting Phase

answered May 10, 2016 at 3:04

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