@apep, @ffao - ha, I was wondering if I shouldn't put 25 down there, but then I thought it might be too hard if I didn't, and there were no other hints to letters apart from the number 26.
"Letter" - Oh no! That passed the censor!! That shouldn't have been there... :P
Ha ha - that was incredibly silly of me - it's because all the others in the series were letters, and I just stopped thinking about how this was different (which turns out, it wasn't :P but people weren't meant to know that)
I have a 3x3x5 cuboid in the position shown (all pieces correct except for the two edges you can see. The must be a parity issue, but I can't get around it whatever I try. The only parity issue that seems possible is having a pair of middles pieces from rows 2 and 4 swapped, but I can't see how I...
I've got a math puzzle, do those count? Find such a function f(x) that has a vertical tangent line at x=0, lim x -> ∞ is 1, lim x-> -∞ is -1. It's shaped somewhat like this, with horizontal tnagent lines at the top and bottom.
@Pavel I just looked at your picture. I answered a question on math.se about that a couple of years ago. People always want those functions for animations and things
A sigmoid function is a mathematical function having a characteristic "S"-shaped curve or sigmoid curve. Often, sigmoid function refers to the special case of the logistic function shown in the first figure and defined by the formula
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you can adapt that, though to get a vertical tangent you have to do something besides adjust parameters of the standard sigmoid (I think)
@Rubio I think Falk is entirely reasonable in not accepting my answer -- he was asking in the hope of finding a much simpler answer, after all, and mine is basically the same as the one he already had. (But if it turns out that there is no much simpler answer, which I think it might, he should probably accept mine.)
Consider the following poem:
From the frozen brook I withdrew my hand,
And I understand.
As yesterday I understood.
My sweat runs free while cutting wood.
Like yesterday's limbs and I feel I should
Have the need for planting grass
As I have done many times in the past.
Ea...
@Sp3000 oh, just understood what you meant by "ley"... and I think it is the solution (via the "?")
@Rubio LEGENDARY - LE-Y (ley, as in fallow, as a field "without" it's usual "seed" planted, around), GENDAR[-me] (French police, without 'me') (def: awesome)
@Wen1now combined mission! Make a Hexagony program to calculate the definite integral of x^n between points a and b, where n, a and b are given as inputs! Note: n is guaranteed to be positive!
, reads a single byte from STDIN and sets the current memory edge to its value, or -1 if EOF is reached. ? reads and discards from STDIN until a digit, a - or a + is found. Then reads as many characters as possible to form a valid (signed) decimal integer and sets the current memory edge to its value. Returns 0 once EOF is reached.
Hexagony looks like a painful hexagon program... I have no idea how anyone'd be able to write a program to do anything useful without considerable trial and error
I don't pretend I'm being useful though... all my teachers know I'm not listening
@boboquack And you have to do it programmatically, i.e you can't pre-work out the answer and then get your program to just ))) until you get the answer and the output it.
Also, if the topic on which you are speaking is well-known to you (as in, you have a basic idea of it), then, it becomes much easier to speak for 4-5 minutes.
@Wen1now boboquack has used it before, a lot of people can use it without very much trial and error; the trial and error only really comes in when golfing it
"I don't know what's more telling--the number of pages in the Wikipedia talk page argument over whether the 1/87.0857143 scale is called "HO" or "H0", or the fact that within minutes of first hearing of it I had developed an extremely strong opinion on the issue."
Consider the following poem:
From the frozen brook I withdrew my hand,
And I understand.
As yesterday I understood.
My sweat runs free while cutting wood.
Like yesterday's limbs and I feel I should
Have the need for planting grass
As I have done many times in the past.
Ea...
