@Doorknob (incidentally, the majority of the NACLO one was solvable without actually figuring out the number system because there's only two magic squares with a 9 in the top middle and one has a top row of 294, which happens to be the number they use as an example. that's how I "solved" this one :P)
@boboquack V'z abg fzneg rabhtu gb trg vg jvgubhg oehgr sbepvat gur onfr, ohg V qvq aneebj vg qbja gb nebhaq 3 cbffvovyvgvrf V guvax naq gur frpbaq bar V gevrq ghearq bhg gb or vg :C
@GarethMcCaughan I'd say the Birom question should take a maximum of an hour and a half, and it was voted as the 2nd/3rd most difficult question out of 5 this year
@as4s4hetic toki pona animal words are fun, akesi is the general term for "non-cute land animal" (there used to be a word monsuta but that's no longer a thing)
nah it's because at closing ceremony the author of the problem said something about the number system changing for bigger numbers, went on to explain it for a while and give literally all of us heart attacks, THEN mentioned that it wasn't relevant for the problem
@ffao Well, postulating laws and abiding by them are two very different things. :)
(But I don't think I've really "postulated" the law that A of B can never be B A. In some cases it works, in the general case it doesn't. John's and my examples don't work, I think, but G love could cryptically mean "love of gravity". The quibble with that isn't the grammar, in my opinion, but that G love really isn't a thing, whereas blister = B lister = second-tier celebrity, for example, is a thing, sort of.)
@Codegolfers I'm struggling to understand why on a test compiler the first program crashes and the second succeeds. The test is tomorrow, so...
fin=open('psychin.txt','r')
info=fin.read().split()
cards={int(info[i]):i+1 for i in range(13)}
fin.close()
k=[]
for i in range(13):
k.append(91-sum(cards[13-j] for j in range(i+1))-cards[13-i])
fout=open('psychout.txt','w')
fout.write(str(max(k)))
fout.close()
fin=open('psychin.txt','r')
info=fin.read().split()
cards=[0]*14
for i in range(13):cards[int(info[i])]=i+1
fin.close()
k=[]
for i in range(13):
k.append(91-sum(cards[13-j] for j in range(i+1))-cards[13-i])
fout=open('psychout.txt','w')
fout.write(str(max(k)))
fout.close()
If it's running Python <2.7 then that's probably your problem exhibit A: https://tio.run/##ZY7NDoIwHMPvfYplpy0G4p/5BQlPAhwWAR3IWAATjfHZcXDQg722/bXuOV17q@bZ2LpPOec5iLADgbY4IsYeFEHhhANIIfKJcHQ3MwmeWy5x1kM5pi9jJ7EQMlPIxGyI1f3ADDOWDdpeKkFKvtGmWYF/IwHzakPtXGVLEVMw3juxgjNSQVOssObX8Xwpg2/AT8INy4NOP0Qr5Tx/AA exhibit B: https://tio.run/##bY1NDoIwGET3c4qmq1YD4aP4gwkngS6IgBakNAUTPT2CJrpxtvPmjXtO18GqeTa2GTLOeQEiJCBQhANS7EAxFI7YgxTihQhHdzOT4IXlEufSV2OWR3pDCZrBM8OMZb60l1qQkqd3nxs7ifUgN1rqzGwJXZbrfzzYki4snattJVIKxnsvPhJSQavZuml/m8UlZfAFFj@cX@/68iE6Kef5BQ
Assume that you are a professional explorer (of geographical landscapes) and you are on an exploration of a desert in a northen hemispherical country during a mid-summer.
Before you started your exploration, through your friend-cum-guide of that specific area you were informed that a solar powe...
Does time stop in a black hole since photons orbit sphericaly around it and not within .?do photons get absorbed in a black hole or do they just circle outside it's no enter zone?
I have created a rather large puzzle - as in it has multiple parts. One of these parts is a cryptic crossword variant. I am awful at making cryptics - so as not to ruin the puzzle I was wondering if you would be interested in doing a sort of joint puzzle and writing the clues?
Don't worry if you can't, I can always make it an ordinary crossword :)
I'd be happy to do them, but it would take me a while, and I still don't quite understand why this puzzle revolves around cryptics if you don't think you write them well.
There are a few others - and I managed to make a few cryptics for them - but I doubt I could write good valid cryptics for all the others without it taking me till Christmas next year...
Assume that you are a professional explorer (of geographical landscapes) and you are on an exploration of a desert in a northen hemispherical country during a mid-summer.
Before you started your exploration, through your friend-cum-guide of that specific area you were informed that a solar powe...
Does time stop in a black hole since photons orbit sphericaly around it and not within .?do photons get absorbed in a black hole or do they just circle outside it's no enter zone?
