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Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
12:13 AM
Generate a set of N random numbers such that 1. Each number has an absolute difference of at least K from each other number 2. Each possible number has an equal chance of appearing and 3. Each possible set of numbers has a non-zero chance of appearing
@El'endiaStarman @MartinEnder @PhiNotPi ^
the real problem lies with the ends of the range. For example, if my numbers are from [1,10] and K is 3, then the numbers 1,2,9,10 have a greater chance of appearing
also, have any of you used Rhino (the JS engine)?
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Do you ever leave the chatroom and come back hours later to see something like ":31275012 " saved in the message box and wonder what message it was?
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
lol
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill yeah
@HelkaHomba just look at the link form
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@HelkaHomba Hahaha No, I haven't done that yet.
But it all makes sense now.
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ more work
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
12:24 AM
8 hours ago, by Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@HelkaHomba I don't understand that message you pinged me with.
Actually, I can make a bookmarklet when I get home
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ If I wanted to call a function in JS from Java with parameters and get the return value, is that feasible/fast?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Cool, I just got the "incrementalist" badge.
Actually wait a sec, it was downgoat who approved it! Ty @Downgoat!
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill feasible? Yes. Fast? Idk, I don't usually check performance
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan np
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan what does it do?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
12:27 AM
It's a badge for editing docs
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan can u pls approv my edit :3
 
New Sandboxed Posts
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Dopappcode-golf math string Teach me how to add Everyone knows how to add numbers by hand, right?––Well, I hope so, but for anyone who needs a quick reminder: To add 17282 and 1342, you proceed as follows: 1) place the larger number above the shorter number and match up the digits 17282 1342 2) dr...

 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
No, I'm < 1K.
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
;_;
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
What's the edit?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
12:28 AM
@Downgoat where? I can.
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Hive yet?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Vim is probably the only docs I'll end up contributing to. Maybe that and pygame, if I can get one more person.
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Oh, apparently I can approve.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Downgoat oh. I don't have that much rep :P
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
12:29 AM
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ also, what about async execution/communication?
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan :D thx dr green eggs
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
there is no brainfuck tag. I am deeply disapointed.
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@HelkaHomba Maybe after dinner.
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
oh, I don't think Rhino is what I want.
I didn't realize it can access Java libraries
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill what do you want exactly?
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
12:33 AM
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ its not just about the security, its also about speed. The entire reason I'm considering Rhino is that it might be faster than communicating via pipes
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ I'm considering adding custom support for certain languages into my KoTH framework, where those languages would execute faster (and wouldn't have to do a bunch of input/output processing)
 
quartata
quartata
Well first off Rhino is already built-in to Java (javax.script)
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
oh, I saw javax.script, but didn't realize that was Rhino
 
quartata
quartata
Secondly Rhino can actually compile JS to Java classes (iirc)
So that's pretty good
@NathanMerrill It's supposed to be a generalized scripting framework so that people can implement other languages but the default language is JS with Rhino
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
ah ok
 
quartata
quartata
I can show some code snippets by the way if you're looking for sandboxing.
I use a ClassShutter plus a custom object factory to make it so people can't use reflection
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
12:37 AM
JVM languages, Idk how many can be accessed from Javan.script
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
er, before that, a common requirement is to write to files. How would a Rhino script do that?
(or store data somewhere)
 
quartata
quartata
It would just use the appropriate classes from java.io
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
ok
 
quartata
quartata
You can pretty much use any Java class seamlessly. The only time there's a bit of a hassle is when you need a primitive array (not a List)
You can even make anonymous classes and all that cool stuff
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Rhino/… <- examples, idk how helpful they are since I can't access GH atm
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
12:39 AM
thanks
 
quartata
quartata
I (unfortunately) have a lot of experience with Rhino, lemme know if you have any questions.
Fair warning: it's still JS. I myself am transitioning to LuaJ as a result
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
what about asynchronous communication?
aka, I call a JS function
it stores some variables
and when I call the JS function again, those variables are still set
 
quartata
quartata
You can save scopes
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
what does that look like?
nevermind, I found the page on it
 
quartata
quartata
You can just specify the old Scope object when you run the new piece of code
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
12:44 AM
hmm. So it looks like if users want to write JS to save state between execution, they'll have to learn some stuff, but all in all, it looks promising
oooh, if I pass in an arbitrary object to a JS function, does that object have all of the public variables and methods of the object?
I'm guessing yes, which is way cool
it literally means that there's no serialization
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
 
quartata
quartata
Why not read?
 
user214599
Hi
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@quartata ask downgoat :P
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@quartata if I pass a List to JS, does it become a JS array?
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
12:52 AM
 
user214599
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ fread looks like a quite awkward name.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@MatthewRoh totally :3
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@quartata readFile will return a buffer/string of a file's contents. read will read bytes from a stream (from open)
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill no, you need to convert yourself
 
user214599
Why not make a filestream object?
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
12:54 AM
Either in js or using a wrapfactory
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@MatthewRoh good idea brb
 
user214599
@Downgoat You can consider a function that redirects all the input to a file
 
user214599
Like in C++: cin.rdbuf (<filestream name here>.rdbuf ())
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill wait, are you using Java 8
 
user214599
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
12:57 AM
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ yes
@Downgoat neither of those are good
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill then wouldn't nashorn be faster
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@NathanMerrill alternative suggestion pls?
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
they don't tell me what I'm reading
IO.File.read
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
i don't want to become Java
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
12:59 AM
just readFile
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@NathanMerrill that is kinda gross
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
IO.File.read.async.call.aruments(goat.txt)
 
user214599
@Downgoat Why not IO.async | read
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan ;_; where is DJ McGoathem
@MatthewRoh wat
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
1:00 AM
@Downgoat oh, I'd make read the function, and readAsync() a different function
there's no need to namespace them
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill why are you even using rhino
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ fast/easier execution of JS scripts for KoTH competitions
 
user214599
@Downgoat Can you give me a document about it?
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
(the controller in Java)
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@MatthewRoh about what?
 
user214599
1:02 AM
@Downgoat the whole IO thing (or at least an explaining about the buffer)
 
user214599
@Down Wait I have an idea
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@NathanMerrill wouldn't nashorn be faster and equally easy?
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ I'm looking into nashorn right now
 
user214599
@Downgoat IO.asyncBuf(buffer) maybe
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
i am having very low views so self-advertising:
 
user214599
1:06 AM
@Downgoat wait what's downgoay (lol typo)
 
user214599
I've come up with a solution for async
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@Quill pls halp, node is borked
 
Quill
Quill
what's wrong?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Quill new profile pic?
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
i tri do path.join
but: 
TypeError: path.join is not a function
;_; @node y u do dis to gaot
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
1:15 AM
what is path?
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
wait nvm figured it out
 
Quill
Quill
Did you have a local variable called path
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ yeah
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@Quill yes >_>
how did u kno
 
Quill
Quill
I did the same thing yesterday
 
user214599
XD
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
1:19 AM
@Quill ._.
 
user214599
Hey I found the best programming language to check primes!
 
user214599
 
user214599
Saw it and went ._.
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Lol, who starred my poll?
@MatthewRoh that's not actually a language by PPCG standards. It can't add.
 
LegionMammal978
LegionMammal978
Great, a brief power outage caused my computer to reboot
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
1:24 AM
^^
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan moi
 
user214599
:O
 
Geobits
Geobits
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
    Caused by: java.
Gee, thanks Java.
 
user214599
Should I make a golf library for C++
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@MatthewRoh no
 
user214599
1:27 AM
Y
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
\o/ \o/ \o/ IO.read works!!!!!!
 
user214599
I mean for being boring.
 
Geobits
Geobits
"fun"? We hate fun.
 
orlp
orlp
chat mini-challenge
help me find example output for an upcoming challenge
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

xnorWrite a program with unknown halting status code-golfcops-and-robbers [This is an attempt to make a workable version of this closed question.] Cops try to write short programs for which it's not clear whether the program eventually halts (terminates) or whether it runs forever. Robbers try to "...

 
orlp
orlp
1:28 AM
you know that the repeating part for 1/3 is 3 (because 0.3333....)
the repeating part for 1/7 is 142857 (because 0.142857142857...)
what is the repeating part of 987654321/123456789?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@orlp 7. It's definitely 7.
 
orlp
orlp
post answer in a gist
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan I don't believe so :)
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@orlp are you sure about that? I wrote a programming language that solves your challenge in 0 bytes, and it says the answer is 7.
 
orlp
orlp
please, serious discussion
I legitimately don't know the answer
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@orlp is this a joke?
 
orlp
orlp
1:31 AM
no
my next challenge will use it as an example
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
so you ask us? what are we, your slaves!? starts working on the problem, intrigued
 
orlp
orlp
but I don't have a working answer
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
probably 0
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
How do you know it does repeat? Lots of fractions don't.
 
orlp
orlp
definitely not
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
1:32 AM
@orlp it's it's irrational. I've done it to 10,000,000 decimals and no repeating part
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@orlp sorry, floating point error :P
 
orlp
orlp
@Downgoat are you saying that the ratio of 987654321/123456789 is irrational?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
   987654321%123456789
8
   x: 987654321%123456789
109739369r13717421
 
user214599
Look at this
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@Downgoat wat how, it cant
 
user214599
1:34 AM
66
Q: Why is 987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729?

marty cohenMany years ago, I noticed that $987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729\ldots$. I sent it in to Martin Gardner at Scientific American and he published it in his column!!! My life has gone downhill since then:) My questions are: Why is this so? What happens beyond the "$729$"? What happens in bases...

arithmetic rational-numbers
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ blame-math
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Downgoat maybe your algorithm is wrong. does it work for something like 5 / 6?
 
orlp
orlp
yes, that answer has a lot of nice analysis, but no generic algorithm, nor an actual full repeating part
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
I'm writing a function to calculate the decimal expansion of a number
then look for patterns
 
user214599
If it was rational, It would be boring.
 
user214599
1:35 AM
20
Q: Golf to find Boring numbers

Matthew RohIf an integer has a digit/sequence of digits in it which repeats continuously (You will understand why I said "continuously") 5 or more times, we call It "Boring". For example, 11111 is Boring, whereas 12345 is not. Instructions Take an Integer as Input Output a truthy value if the integer is...

code-golf number
 
user214599
^ reference
 
orlp
orlp
it should have a period of 6855006, according to this one site
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that gives: .8333...3
 
orlp
orlp
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that is not a proper algorithm though
1. it's brute force
2. it can give false positives
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@orlp oh?
 
orlp
orlp
1:36 AM
for example
what about 0.12345123451234512345 + 1/7000000000000000000000000000000000
the repeating part is still the same as 1/7
 
user214599
Everyone uses brute force in project euler. That's no bad.
 
orlp
orlp
but your algorithm will return 12345
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@orlp can you give the lowest multiple of 123456789 that is in the form 999....?
or anyone actually
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@orlp 411/33333
 
orlp
orlp
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ do you mean in the form 10**i - 10**j?
 
feersum
feersum
1:38 AM
I tried it in Mathematica and the repeating part is 6855006 digits.
 
orlp
orlp
2 mins ago, by orlp
it should have a period of 6855006, according to this one site
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@orlp 10^n-1
 
user214599
That's because of the limit of floating numbers in programming. Can you even 1/700000000000000 in programming? (Without mathematica)
 
orlp
orlp
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ why would that multiple exist?
for example there is no multiple of 2 and 10^n-1
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@MatthewRoh yes, use rational class
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
1:39 AM
@MatthewRoh yes. 
   x: 0.12345123451234512345 + %7000000000000000000000000000000000
4115r33333
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@orlp because it terminates
 
orlp
orlp
@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ but 1/14 doesn't
and 14 is coprime with all 10^n-1
 
user214599
Also pi might be rational
 
orlp
orlp
@feersum could you post the full repeating portion in a gist?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@MatthewRoh false
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
1:41 AM
@orlp found repeating part!
 
feersum
feersum
@orlp I could if I knew how to save a huge output from this terminal...
 
orlp
orlp
@feersum pipe to a file
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
 
orlp
orlp
some_command > output.txt
 
user214599
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Theres a 10^-100000 possibility that pi is rational
 
orlp
orlp
1:41 AM
@Downgoat how do I trust this is not a false positive?
 
feersum
feersum
It's an ssh connection.
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@orlp ill post in pastebin brb
 
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ
@orlp but not all 10^m-10^n, it's just that 123456789 Does not have 2 as a factor, so no trailing 0s should appear
 
feersum
feersum
I would still have to get it through the terminal or paste in on the internet somehow.
 
orlp
orlp
@feersum you can create a gist
git clone it on the SSH machine
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
1:42 AM
@MatthewRoh No. Pi is proven irrational.
 
orlp
orlp
pipe the output to the gist file
git commit
git push
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@MatthewRoh Huh?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
And transcendental too for that matter
 
orlp
orlp
I want to make this a code-challenge, since this challenge is mostly about finding and implementing an algorithm
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
And food as well
 
orlp
orlp
1:44 AM
but I can't think of a scoring mechanism other than code golf
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
However, it's not proven that every integer sequence appears in pi.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan such a number would be irrational, right?
 
user214599
Ok
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
 
orlp
orlp
@Downgoat please raw gist
don't crash my browser with big syntax-highlighted gists
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
1:46 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ A number that contains every sequence would be irrational, but not all irrational numbers contain every sequence.
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@orlp ... My ipad can load it
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan yes, that makes sense
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
 
orlp
orlp
@Downgoat my old laptop probably has less ram than your fancy new ipad
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@MatthewRoh Next you'll be telling us that e to some constant times pi is rational!
 
orlp
orlp
1:48 AM
@Downgoat what is the repeating part?
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
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Q: Does Pi contain all possible number combinations?

WildlingI came across the following image, which states: $\pi$ Pi Pi is an infinite, nonrepeating (sic) decimal - meaning that every possible number combination exists somewhere in pi. Converted into ASCII text, somewhere in that infinite string if digits is the name of every person you w...

number-theory irrational-numbers pi
 
feersum
feersum
e ^ (0 pi ) = 1 ???
 
Downgoat
Downgoat
@orlp the entire file (exluding the 8. and some junk at the end) is repeating part
 
orlp
orlp
@feersum yes, why is that surprising?
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@feersum Ok. That trivially ruined the joke :(
 
orlp
orlp
1:49 AM
oh I missed helka's msg
e^sqrt(-pi*pi) = -1
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Alex: there's no particular reason for the digits of $\pi$ to have any special pattern to them, so mathematicians expect that the digits of $\pi$ more or less "behave randomly," and a random sequence of digits contains every possible finite string of digits with probability $1$ by Borel's normal number theorem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number#Properties_and_examples — Qiaochu Yuan Oct 19 '12 at 16:52
 
orlp
orlp
e^(-pi*pi)^(1/2) = -1
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
Our pi user is unregistered, whatever that means
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
._.
 
orlp
orlp
@HelkaHomba I believe you can post answers without making an account
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan you missed the opportunity for Dr. Mayham
@feersum how long does mathematica take to calculate 987654321/123456789?
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
1:55 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ urls don't like your name chat.stackexchange.com/users/129255/**c-ob**
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@HelkaHomba yup :3
 
feersum
feersum
@orlp It took a couple minutes I think
 
orlp
orlp
@feersum really?
 
feersum
feersum
on Raspberry pi
 
orlp
orlp
holy crap
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
1:56 AM
and markdown doesn't like me
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
@orlp ooh, that's a good one.
 
orlp
orlp
is there really no efficient algorithm for this?
maybe I can make it a fastest-code challenge?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
^
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@orlp on a Raspberry Pi that sounds about right. It's not a powerful computer
 
quartata
quartata
@NathanMerrill Rhino's JS arrays are subclasses of List. So you can pass a JS array to a method that takes a List (no generics obviously) but you can't cast a List up to a JS array
 
orlp
orlp
1:58 AM
@HelkaHomba you take that back! poor pi :(
it has feelings too you know
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@orlp Mine took up to a minute to draw world maps
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
I found this nice little thing in node: 
> c
[]
> c.unshift(c)
1
> c
[ [Circular] ]
 
quartata
quartata
As for regular Java arrays (Object[]) you have to use reflction to work with them :(
 
orlp
orlp
@HelkaHomba well, worlds are big
 
quartata
quartata
There might be a way to cast a List to a JS array though I dunno
 
orlp
orlp
1:59 AM
and it did an entire world in just 1 minute
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@DoorK can you sing for us?
 
Dennis
Dennis
So you're saying that π is a bit like reddit? — Mark Byers Oct 19 '12 at 11:00
dat comment
 
quartata
quartata
@HelkaHomba As a kid I thought that theme song was really catchy. Please forgive me
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@quartata It is. Good game too.
 
quartata
quartata
Yeah I always thought DK64 was underappreciated. Always really loved it + BK
I think Banjo Tooie is still one of my favorite console games to this day. Good ol Rare
rip
 
Dennis
Dennis
2:10 AM
I hate it when people are that wrong.
 
quartata
quartata
whoa so few trekkies
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
and goodnight
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
@quartata It looks like nashorn can, so I'll probably be using it
as well as other speed improvements
 
quartata
quartata
I haven't tried nashorn yet. It looks good though
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
yeah
 
Dennis
Dennis
2:16 AM
I haven't tried it either, but I'd expect Nashorn to taste terrible.
 
quartata
quartata
haha
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
Bah.
So, apparently, if I pass a List into JS
and then have the JS return that list, it is a List
but if JS creates an array, then its a Map
 
quartata
quartata
Wah? In Rhino it's just a special List
 
Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
yeah, passing a List into JS gives JS the ability to do bracket access
but all of the functions are List's function, not the javascript array functions
 
quartata
quartata
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ dont know js but cant you make a wrapper class for the generator?
 
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Q: Missing Integer Sequence Detection

A.DanischewskiThe challenge is to detect missing integer sequences. You have a directory filled with directories or files that are named as integers. The directories and files are generated from multiple threads yet the job did not complete - there are therefore gaps in the sequence. The input is two intege...

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orlp
orlp
sometimes you gotta take an alternative approach
Can I just delete all files and print 1? — orlp 19 secs ago
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
2:46 AM
@HelkaHomba Do you still wanna play? I'm free now.
 
Steven H.
Steven H.
\o/ A new programming language actually compiles! Only one function has been added but it works!
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Nice! What's the language?
 
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Q: run native code in python… Without loading a shared library!

user2284570The aim is simple : crash the Cpython interpreter process in a way that let run native cpu assembly instead of triggering a segmentation fault.  Rules : You can’t use any library outside the python standard library (butimport mmapis disallowed). The code shall be able to run on a computer with...

code-golf python assembly
 
Steven H.
Steven H.
The name is still WIP but I'm calling it LI. It's supposed to be a functional golfing language (as opposed to stack-based or procedural, like most other golfing languages as far as I can see)
 
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man
Github link?
 
Steven H.
Steven H.
2:53 AM
I still have to push the code, gimme a few minutes
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Yeah, ok. 3 min
 
Steven H.
Steven H.
Actually, while I'm messing around with getting the code pushed I can post the WIP function list
Please critique as much as you can, since this is my first time trying to actually make a programming language and as such I don't have much experience with language design
 
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