The Nineteenth Byte

jeez that CnR was only in the sandbox for a day

@Eridan Next time please leave it longer in the sandbox. At minimum, a challenge should be in the sandbox for 3 days.

250 bytes for 2 CJam programs? Oh, forget it... :P

Considering just how much you can do with only twenty bytes in CJam...

@AlexA. This could be interpreted as "No, do the French golf/golf of French" or "No, do some French golf/golf of French" depending on whether you consider golf to be countable

I'm assuming you wanted "No, do the golf in French"

Oh half a moment.

I guess "faire du golf" is idiomatic for playing golf.

Anonymous

@quartata nah

Anonymous

My rule is 24 hours without someone pointing out a specification issue

12:24 AM

hey @Mego

Anonymous

Hi Tan

how are you doing?

@Mego nice and abbreviated, huh?

Anonymous

@Dennis <3

Anonymous

62 stars on the pin...

A: How does the Sandbox work? How do I use it?

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How long should I leave a question in the sandbox? In general you should leave a question at least 72 hours to ensure that the people who check it fairly regularly will have a chance to see it and comment.

Anonymous

12:26 AM

okay seriously stop abusing socks

@Mego But there were spec issues

Anonymous

@quartata Then yeah I agree with you

He didn't even ban RNG ;_;

@Mego can I ask you some Seriously questions?

Anonymous

@TanMath You can ask, but I can't guarantee I'll answer right away

12:28 AM

I looked at the code you gave me for the gamma function, but there was some stuff I wasn't sure about

So as a reference, here is the code (thanks BTW for the code)

99u^W;;;ì1+,^@ì,*1+/-*(-

@Mego too bad Rotor doesn't have the sort builtin yet

so first, why is there a - before the *? what does it do?

Anonymous

I'm certain that's not the code I gave you

The answer to your thingy would be three bytes

<s]

@Mego yes it is... I copied and pasted from that.. I will get the chat transcript

12:29 AM

I need to get working on the interpreter again

Nov 18 at 23:36, by Mego

99u^W;;;ì1+,^@ì,*1+/-*(- should get you closer

Anonymous

If it is, then I have no idea what I was thinking

Anonymous

You should only ever be reading the input with , once, not twice per loop

@Mego well most of it is correct.. but what is hard to do is the v*= part of the C++

@Mego oh.. so it is messed up code?

Anonymous

Yeah

Anonymous

12:31 AM

It's not supposed to be functional, it was just supposed to get you closer

gosh... i understand, it must have been in the middle of the night for you...

Anonymous

If you wanna do something like v*=w, you have to do it in two steps

@Mego yes. I know.. but I just wanted to know whether those parts are correct...

@Mego how?

Every time I see an easy challenge I almost always realize Rotor doesn't have the one builtin that would let it win yet

Anonymous

Well, actually, all at once

Anonymous

12:32 AM

You start with v on top of the stack. You push w (by doing whatever calculations necessary), and then do *

@Mego ok... i will look into it...

Anonymous

Btw the Seriously solution to my newest challenge is 7 bytes if I'm doing it right

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Also, @Mego another question is how do you do a reference for a string in Seriously.. like how do you do "blah %"%d in Seriously

@Mego If I finish my interpreter ever Rotor is 3

Actually wait a second

Hm

Might be 4

12:35 AM

@Mego you going to answer it? else I could try it...

by saying the sacred word.. "dibs!"

Anonymous

@TanMath It's my challenge, so I'm not gonna post any answers

Anonymous

@TanMath [9,8]"blah %d %d"% is equivalent to "blah %d"%(9,8) in Python

@Mego thanks!

Anonymous

Looks like I broke the online interpreter again

Anonymous

sigh

Anonymous

12:38 AM

That major code overhaul is gonna have to come sooner rather than later

@Mego for your challenge, second test case, should it be "HELLO","world","!!!!!" -> "!Hw!Eo!Lr!Ll!dO"?

@Mego I can help with the transition to Python 3, perhaps?

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman Sure, I'll need a flamethrower and about 3 gallons of propane

Anonymous

@TanMath No, capital letters are always lower ordinal than lowercase

@Mego oh.. thanks

12:43 AM

I still need a pattern counting script for Golly. Do you guys know where I can find one?

not I

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman 800m/3.785b

@Mego ;_;

How can I count the number of strings in the input?

This is gonna take a while...

12:46 AM

here is my messed up version of the Seriously code:

,ZMS+

Anonymous

@TanMath With the input format in the question, they'll be read in as a list. ;l will dupe the list and push the length of the list

It is a translation of the Pyth answer, except it doesn't work!

Anonymous

That's because Pyth can't simply be translated to Seriously

@Mego yes.. I bet the problem is the stack

@Mego ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY

12:51 AM

It's not letting me run the builtin scripts anyway. :(

@Mego: Regarding your string zip sort challenge, is it alright for me to take input like "abc""cba"?

It'll be a two-byte difference, so not a huge deal, but still...

Vɪʜᴀɴ

Sadness is thinking you out-golfed Dennis but then realizing your code doesn't work :(

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If it makes you feel any better, Minkolang is already losing and I've only just started. :P

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman Sure

Anonymous

As long as you can manage any reasonable number of strings input, the format isn't that important

12:54 AM

alright, cool

Can't figure out how to do a gs2 answer for the zipping challenge since I can't think of any short way to split the string into an array

Oh half a moment

Do you think identifying and counting the patterns in an rle would make a good code golf challenge?

Anonymous

How to internet: a guide by Mego

Anonymous

1. Have an idea for something to look at
2. Open tab
3. Stare blankly at new tab because you forgot what you were going to look at
4. Close tab
5. Remember what you were going to look at, feel dumb
6. Go to step 2

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