In the PPCG chatroom the Nineteenth Byte, using carets ^ (or carrots) is a way of indicating that you agree with one of the previously made comments just above yours.
A caret message consists solely of N ^ characters (where N is a positive integer) and it means agreement with the Nth previous me...
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I should be able to use the unique function to get rid of repeated characters but for now I'm using a regex.
I believe this should work fine. I'll be heading off to sleep so notify me if anything is wrong and I'll address it next m...
@quintopia Yes. "All messages will either be caret messages consisting solely of ^'s, or be non-caret messages consisting of letters and spaces ([ a-zA-Z]+ in regex)."
I realize you're grieving over the death of XP. You're currently in stage 1: denial. Soon will come anger, then bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance.
Golf a Purple Interpreter
Purple is an esolang which is designed with two main purposes:
To be a minimization of Aubergine, since there just aren't enough self-modifying one-instruction languages around.
To admit the possibility of terrifyingly small golfed interpreters. My first pass at a rea...
While I was researching answers for this, I saw how horribly inconsistent code formatting in answers is. So inconsistent I had to filter them manually. Add to this different scoring schemes and code broken up into multiple sections.
I'm surprised minxocat hasn't whipped out his katana and started swinging, though he probably already found something wrong with the design of it, and started making a new type of sword.
Complete the Digit Sequence
We have a string of digits with some elements missing and marked with .s.
74..7.1..1.3...8.781256
We want to fill the missing parts in a way that they would form an arithmetic sequence with the previous on next elements. E.g. 8...2 becomes 8642. If this kind of fil...
@quintopia well... I don't know... the task is good, but the challenge doesn't seem very well specified, so I'm not sure how comparable the answers are. also, I'll probably stop calling them catalogues, because that seems to be achieving the opposite of what it was intended to. so making it a catalogue would be nothing more than adding the leaderboard snippet.
Maybe a code challenge, idk how challenging/interesting it is for bigger grids:
Given a grid of digits and blanks, fill the blanks sowhen a row or column is splitted to numbers those form an arithmetic sequence. Minimize the max element in the sequences in row & columns!
5.. .22 1.3 = 531 122 113 and max element is 12 (rows: 5 3 1, 12 2, 11 3, columns: ...)
..5 ... 9.. = 135 555 975 and max element is 9 (all numbers are single digits)
Recently, I have found a bijective mapping f from positive integers to finite, nested sequences. The purpose of this challenge is to implement it in the language of your choice.
The Mapping
Consider a number n with the factors where . Then:
For example:
Rules
You may write a full progr...
This past Saturday I noticed that the YYYYMMDD date (20151121) is a perfect square (4489*4489) (I don't make a habit of that, I was just math doodling while waiting for something). When was the last time that was true, and when will it occur again?
Is it possible to do the above without using the os module or the open() function?
How can I create a file and write to it, with the above conditions, using Python?
Also, could you provide an explanation of how the script works?
@quartata I don't work in IT.(accounting) But that don't stop people from e-mailing me IT questions." If you look Smart and tech/code related that must mean you can answer my tech/code question" is a train of thought I feel many people have. Even though they shouldn't. Maybe they have tried to ask SO without any luck and are Grasping at straws?
This is more like someone who has emailed the head of the IT department with questions with many questions in the past, knows company policy backwards and forwards and this time decides randomly to go through the employee phonebook and call up some random dude and ask him his question
The guy has 3k rep on Ask Ubuntu. He isn't stupid.
I noticed that some Challenges have "For any submission, there must be a free interpreter of the language somewhere" What is this trying to exclude? and Why? Maybe I'm just salty because my main Languages don't; but it seems needlessly restrictive.
Using a non-free language on a Cops and Robbers challenge
Most (currently all) cops and robbers challenges consist of two parts:
A cop submission, where a user posts some secret property of a program, such as its output, a scrambled version of the code, etc.
Then, other users, the robbers, try...
Similar to the images on allrgb.com, Make images where each pixel is a unique color (no color is used twice and no color is missing).
Give a program that generates such an image, along with a screenshot or file of the output (upload as PNG).
Create the image purely algorithmically.
Image must ...
Okay, now I don’t want to alarm anybody in this room, but it’s just come to my attention that the person to your right is a sock of Dennis. Also, the person to your left is a... normal person I guess
Woops Derp I also got the @Dennis so that helps me I think. (Since I also got a poke for the cops and robbers thing you talked about) Just because I live in the same country as some person who posted a cops question doesn't mean anything If you want you can have all documents I created with 5 possible solutions with more byte counts that didn't quite fit
xL¡l»(b=l0+lS(1)g(/(.)\1+/,"$1")g`[aeiou]`)n>3?b:l,ø)O`a-z `
I should be able to use the unique function to get rid of repeated characters but for now I'm using a regex.
I believe this should work fine. I'll be heading off to sleep so notify me if anything is wrong and I'll address it next m...
Golf a Purple Interpreter
Purple is an esolang which is designed with two main purposes:
To be a minimization of Aubergine, since there just aren't enough self-modifying one-instruction languages around.
To admit the possibility of terrifyingly small golfed interpreters. My first pass at a rea...
Complete the Digit Sequence
We have a string of digits with some elements missing and marked with .s.
74..7.1..1.3...8.781256
We want to fill the missing parts in a way that they would form an arithmetic sequence with the previous on next elements. E.g. 8...2 becomes 8642. If this kind of fil...
Recently, I have found a bijective mapping f from positive integers to finite, nested sequences. The purpose of this challenge is to implement it in the language of your choice.
The Mapping
Consider a number n with the factors where . Then:
For example:
Rules
You may write a full progr...
Is it possible to do the above without using the os module or the open() function?
How can I create a file and write to it, with the above conditions, using Python?
Also, could you provide an explanation of how the script works?
Using a non-free language on a Cops and Robbers challenge
Most (currently all) cops and robbers challenges consist of two parts:
A cop submission, where a user posts some secret property of a program, such as its output, a scrambled version of the code, etc.
Then, other users, the robbers, try...
