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Is it an option for the ls utility specified in POSIX.1-2017?

The ls utility lists specified directory content. It is infamous for stupidly lots of options which is known for anti-pattern design of implementing software.(...
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Output the Steiner system S(5,8,24)

Output 759 "rows", each of which consists of 8 distinct integers in the range 0,1,...,23, with the property that every set of 5 integers in the range 0,1,...,23 is contained in exactly one ...
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10 votes
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Looping counter extended

The looping counter is a challenge that prints an infinite number of lines. The first line has one *, the next line has one more ...
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Cellular Automata Rule 30

What are cellular automata? Cellular automata describes a broad category of computational models that covers various cellular automations, some of the most intriguing of which involve 'simple' rules ...
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Sith TIE-Fighter

Today is May 5th which means it's Star-Wars Day episode II: Revenge of the 5th. For this task, you will output the following image of a Sith TIE-fighter: ...
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X-Wing Starfighter

Today is May 4th, Star Wars day, so here's a Star Wars ASCII-art task. Output this image of an X-Wing starfighter: ...
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Find the Chess960 starting positions from its integer ID

Chess960, a.k.a. Fisher random chess, is a variation of the game of chess. In classic chess the starting positions are always the same. In chess960 they vary. Before each game of chess960 one random ...
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First person to ever beat Classic Tetris

Historic Tetris Achievement Blue Scuti became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES. Here's the Tetris Kill Screen Challenge Output the following Tetris ...
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Calculate 500 digits of e

Write a program to calculate the first 500 digits of the mathematical constant e, meeting the rules below: It cannot include "e", "math.e" or similar e constants, nor may it call ...
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Bloons TD 6 Ordered Upgrade Paths

Background The monkeys need your help again organizing their defense and have asked you, Benjamin the code monkey, to create a program that will list all tower upgrade options as they appear in your ...
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Smallest integer \$n\$ such that \$\frac{\sqrt{\log_2{n}}}{(\log_2 {\log_2 n})^2} > 1\$

Write code that outputs the smallest integer \$n > 5\$ such that \$\frac{\sqrt{\log_2{n}}}{(\log_2 {\log_2 n})^2} > 1\$. Your code may have at most one digit in its source code. You can use ...
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ASCII-art milk carton

The following is an unfolded milk carton: ...
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Print the Christmas alphabet

Write a program to print or return one of these strings verbatim: abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Notice that there is no L.
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Golf Transmission

As in, the 5 speed transmission from the original VW Golf GTI. Print the transmission pattern in as few bytes as possible. Yes I know this isn't what it actually looks like but the GTI 5 speed shift ...
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Print ASCII building

Challenge Display to the screen or write to stdout this exactly: ...
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