Questions tagged [code-golf]
Code-golf is a competition to solve a particular problem in the fewest bytes of source code.
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Compute the degree of a string
The input is a string made of the letters a,b,c only. The output is an integer representing the degree of the sequence. The degree of a sequence is computed as follows:
Assume that each of the ...
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Integrate a function from -1 to 1 [closed]
Create a function or program that takes any continuous, well-defined, single-input function (f(x)=...) and returns an approximate integration from -1 to 1. (at ...
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Construct a uInt from an array of bits
Task is simple!
Take an array of binary values (can be boolean, 0/1, etc.) and use those bits to construct an n-th bit long unsigned integer (return type does not need to be an unsigned integer, just ...
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Where are zeros? Self-describing sequence
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A167519: Lexicographically earliest increasing sequence which lists the positions of the zero digits in the sequence.
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Decode Caesar cipher based on a given text
I can't think of a better name. This is similar to this challenge, but a lot easier.
Read three strings which contain only uppercase letters. The length of the first and second strings are the same. ...
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Golfing the complexity with subtraction
The Mahler-Popken complexity, \$C(N)\$, of a positive integer, \$N\$, is the smallest number of ones (\$1\$) that can be used to form \$N\$ in a mathematical expression using only the integer* \$1\$ ...
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How can I reduce the characters in the following python code? [closed]
The following code is 47 characters.
print(("Ekki v","V")["COV"in input()]+"eikur!")
How can it be reduced to 46 or less?
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How far are you?
Write a program that gets coordinates of two objects on Earth, and calculates how far they are from each other directly in space (a straight line through Earth) and on the surface (through the ...
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*Trivial* near-repdigit perfect powers
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Output the sequence that precisely consists of the following integers in increasing order:
the 2nd and higher powers of 10 (\$10^i\$ where \$i \ge 2\$),
the squares of powers of 10 times 2 or 3 (...
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Anti Tic-Tac-Toe
The rule of Anti Tic-Tac-Toe is like Tic-Tac-Toe.
The rules are:
There is a 3*3 grid, the squares in the grid are labeled 1 to 9:
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Find the rule of a cellular automaton
There are already many challenges where you are given a cellular automaton rule and an initial state and you have to find the state after a certain number of steps. This challenge is the opposite: you ...
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3 Dimensional Minesweeper
3-Dimensional Minesweeper
I've been on a minesweeper kick for a while, but all the questions are for 2 dimensions (or that one in 1D). But 2D is 2 easy!
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Write the shortest code possible to ...
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HTML Table Parser
Input a strict subset of HTML <table> string representation as defined below. Output parsed table, while any cells who span multiple rows or columns, record ...
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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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