The Nineteenth Byte

12:06 PM

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Q: Biplex: an important useless operator

You may choose to use any base for input and output (including binary and unary), provided they are both in the same base. Input A list of between 1 and 255 positive integers (inclusive), each in the range 1 to 232 - 1 (inclusive). Input without leading zeroes is required to be accepted. Input...

Sp3000

@MartinBüttner Are you trying the quine challenge?

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 Was going to do a simple CJam solution but had to head out for lunch. Since there still isn't one, I might try now.

but first biplex

Sp3000

Tell me how you go and I'll compare :P

... or not

Martin Büttner

okay...

now...

trichoplax

@MartinBüttner I thought you did that days ago :P

Martin Büttner

12:11 PM

yeah I know, but I had to post it :P

trichoplax

lol

Doorknob

@AlexA. yes

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 first pass is 28

Sp3000

Hm... I've got 30, but trying to get rid of an expensive bit in the middle

Martin Büttner

you know there is actually a pending feature request for making ArrayList * work with negative numbers and floats which would make this a breeze :D

Sp3000

12:15 PM

:P

Martin Büttner

@aditsu hint

@Sp3000 do you mind if I post mine?

Sp3000

Go for it

Martin Büttner

oh wait, 10 %

Sp3000

Ahaha, yeah I dunno why that rule is there... (I have 29 now)

Okay yours is... nowhere like mine :P Might post mine after a bit

Martin Büttner

interesting

Sp3000

12:20 PM

... actually no it is like mine but you're using a block

And I think that's a lot shorter

Martin Büttner

you did a string quine? interesting :)

Sp3000

.... string is expensive :/

Here's me redoing with block: {`"_~"+rd_z25*i,\g@%f=}_~

(feel free to take)

Actually... is this hanging on 0?

Oh, I can't use 0g% :/

nvm

Oh that's why you have 1|, riiight

Actually, float , works doesn't it? Maybe {`"_~"+rd_z26*,\g1|@%f=}_~ then?

Martin Büttner

the , and f=is pretty clever

mine can't use floats because of <

feel free to post it yourself, I think it's sufficiently different.

it definitely wouldn't have occurred to me

Sp3000

1| wouldn't have occured to me :P dibs on collab answer

Martin Büttner

eh, I'm sure 1e| would have occurred to you and leaving out the e isn't too much of a leap ;)

Sp3000

12:32 PM

Oi :P

anOKsquirrel

What page do you guys use for cjam reference? I couldn't find one on the sourceforge page

Martin Büttner

there's sourceforge.net/p/cjam/wiki/Operators and sourceforge.net/p/cjam/wiki/Variables

and Sp wrote some inofficial documentation

Sp3000

^^ some unofficial documentation

anOKsquirrel

Oh, I had readthedocs page open

Sp3000

aditsu's been going through and writing more thorough docs lately, hence some actual links on the operators page now

anOKsquirrel

12:37 PM

And I still asked :P

Sp3000

To be fair, I never finished the readthedocs one :P

anOKsquirrel

Going to look at the other one, didn't see anything on the b operator

Sp3000

(I still have most of the next tutorial written, but I just never got around to fixing it due to small quirks which I got wrong myself)

Always feel free to ask in chat :P

anOKsquirrel

Nope, still just says "base conversion"

Sp3000

17 5 b pushes [3 2] since 17 is 32 in base 5

anOKsquirrel

12:39 PM

how do I use the b operator?

Sp3000

And [3 2] 5 b, well, pushes 17

anOKsquirrel

O okay, thanks

SuperJedi224

Hey guys

anOKsquirrel

hello!

So how would I use that to convert a binary string input to an array?

Sp3000

Array of... 1s and 0s?

anOKsquirrel

12:42 PM

yes

Sp3000

:~ to eval each element

anOKsquirrel

Oh, okay thanks

Sp3000

Are you doing the invert a binary string challenge?

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 cheeky.

anOKsquirrel

Nope

I'm doing codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/62713/…

trichoplax

12:44 PM

Woo!

Sp3000

Ah, right :)

@MartinBüttner :D

anOKsquirrel

hey @trichoplax

I can't comment (not 50 rep D:) so I have a question about the Biplex challenge

trichoplax

Go for it (hopefully you'll have the rep once you post...)

anOKsquirrel

Does the input need to be an array like in martin's answer, or can it just be space-seperated?

trichoplax

Any reasonable input format is fine (as long as it isn't precalculated in any way)

anOKsquirrel

12:47 PM

Thanks

I have to go eat, bye

trichoplax

So space separated, newline separated, comma separated...

Bye :)

SuperJedi224

@anOKsquirrel Just upvoted your answer

anOKsquirrel

thanks!

mınxomaτ

Someone should do a browser extension that disables all comments on all news sites.

anOKsquirrel

I like reading them

...sometimes

trichoplax

12:55 PM

Sometimes the comments are more informative than the articles

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In amongst all the pointless ranting

mınxomaτ

@trichoplax If that's the case you should switch news sites.

SuperJedi224

@mınxomaτ That's going to happen no matter what news site you read

trichoplax

@mınxomaτ Depends on the subject matter. For topics with sparse coverage the comments can be the best source of accurate info

mınxomaτ

No it isn't.

(From my experience)

SuperJedi224

1:15 PM

A desert temple

Buried almost entirely under the sand

anOKsquirrel

Oh, nice!

I have pocket edition though D:

SuperJedi224

Found it last night

anOKsquirrel

nice!

I need the PC version

If I do this right, I might beat martin on codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/62713/…

SuperJedi224

Okay, I'm almost at the village

anOKsquirrel

cool!

SuperJedi224

1:18 PM

Which would mark the furthest in this direction I've gone so far in this save

anOKsquirrel

nice!

SuperJedi224

And beyond the village is... still more desert

I think I see something off to the left

anOKsquirrel

nice

I want PC version :P

SuperJedi224

Well, I found a savana

Also, there's a building on the biome boundary I'd like to check out

I'll let you know what it is

anOKsquirrel

Cool :D

SuperJedi224

1:22 PM

It's just a well

Martin Büttner

oooo, alephalpha used Hexagony :)

anOKsquirrel

for what question?

Darnit, I totally misinterpreted biplex

I lost a lot of time :P

But what I did do is write a binary XOR program

qS%{:~2b}%{V^:V}/];V

flawr

Pilot ejects from F A18 when arrestor cable snaps

hi all

wello

1:32 PM

'Hoy

Lembik

I keep on feeling really proud my question has 39 answers and then unproud when I see how many some other questions have

anOKsquirrel

lol

SuperJedi224

I think this rock formation means that I'm almost at the west edge of the desert

anOKsquirrel

:D

SuperJedi224

My house is a short distance northeast of the east end

anOKsquirrel

1:41 PM

Nice!

When you are playing PE with your friend...

Within 10 minutes we both found melons, pumpkins, cocoa, and more

And I still haven't found either

SuperJedi224

I have yet to find melons or cocoa.

Martin Büttner

@Rainbolt goo.gl/r7ljhp

SuperJedi224

I do have a large quantity of pumpkins though

anOKsquirrel

I made a farm with the 3 I found

I have like a stack or two?

Martin Büttner

@Rainbolt looks like the first wrapping happens on day 10

SuperJedi224

1:43 PM

There's a little bit more desert on the other side, a bit to the north

Martin Büttner

there's a bug though, which doesn't move the O closer to home if it's North of home, let me fix that

SuperJedi224

Martin Büttner

@Rainbolt fixed: goo.gl/WXWKJr

@Rainbolt and here is a nicer version which just spits out all intermediate results up to N: goo.gl/fosKCS

anOKsquirrel

I have to go now, bye

SuperJedi224

Goodbye

Just found another desert temple and this one isn't almost entirely buried

flawr

1:49 PM

Is this a minecraft landscape photography museum?

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trichoplax

@anOKsquirrel Is the misunderstanding something I could clarify in the question to save anyone else hitting the same problem?

SuperJedi224

I think he left

trichoplax

Hopefully the ping will show up for later

feersum

@trichoplax I left a comment on your question

flawr

@trichoplax BLUE?

trichoplax

2:00 PM

@flawr It's what everyone's wearing in here nowadays...

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@flawr (Mine's only for Computer Graphics though - not here)

flawr

Not me=)

trichoplax

I just turned blue so I'm still clueless at the moment :)

flawr

Oh nice to see that CG is now realized too!

trichoplax

Yes I'm delighted too

flawr

Let's see, perhaps I'm going to hang out over there every now and then=)

trichoplax

2:05 PM

You're very welcome. Chat is quiet so far but there are lots of questions needing answers and lots of interesting existing answers

SuperJedi224

Building a minecart track to go the full 2k+ blocks from one end of the desert to the other would probably be a waste of materials.

Well, bye for now.

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