@ASCIIThenANSI =D glad you like it. could be cool & will be very interested to read the bkg on the winning solution. ... have you guys heard of kaggle? also lots of potential there. maybe a way to tie-in with this site somehow.
@ASCIIThenANSI Well is it useful? Are you actually using it to find challenges you couldn't find by checking the first page when sorting answers by active?
> Shortly before the company changed its name to Cimpress, it came for criticism here for running a $10K Contest To Solve A Problem Worth Millions. It the company trying again to get developers to solve its problems on the cheap.
Last Nonzero Digits of a Factorial
code-golf factorial base-conversion
You should write a program or function which given three positive integers n b k as input outputs or returns the last k digits before the trailing zeros in the base b representation of n!.
Example
n=7 b=5 k=4
n!=5040
5040 ...
GCD function in a variant of the language I'm writing: ||-||--||--^[||-||--||--||--^||-||--||--||--^<[||-||--||--v||-||--]||-||--||--||--^||-||--||--||--^-||-||--||--||--||-->||-||--||--^]||-||--||-->
If the language has its own limits then it isn't TC.
@randomra I've had another read and I still can't understand which way is intended from the spec - your way sounds interesting though so if it turns out it isn't what the author intended, all you need to do is think up a new name :)
the related questions turned out to be a better dupe-search than us: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/694/last-non-zero-digit-of-n http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/733/calculate-the-last-digits-of-grahams-number
Race of the Digits
code-golf simulation
You should write a program or function which given a starting order of one-digit positive integers and the length of the track as input outputs or returns the finish order of the numbers.
The input [5,1,2,6,7] and 14 defines the following race:
--------...
I do not know if I am intelligent enough, but I am ready to give 100% effort to this. Even if I am not intelligent, Will this 100% effort give me a PhD??
I don't know enough ruby to know if it's well golfed, but it seems fine to me. Tested and works, so I don't know. Sometimes the drive-bys are just mysteries.
Could be that it's just bare code, with no explanation or intro. Seems pretty minor (esp from a new user, and on a simple golf), but it's the only thing I see "wrong" with it.
Invent a programming language that does crazy things
Note: This type of challenge is up for discussion. I am making this community wiki, so you can help me out.
Man, have you seen some of the crazy programming languages out there? We've got Pyth, CJam, GolfScript, and we even have one calle...
"[ SmokeDetector | GibberishClassifierBeta ] Potential gibberish answer (98.6899729565%): Make a scalable Christmas Tree on codegolf.stackexchange.com" No, that's not gibberish, that's a tree.
Pointer to pointers to pointers to pointers
You should choose a language supporting pointers like C. And your task is simple: demonstrate a legitimate use of the most level of pointers.
Other rules:
They must be pointers to pointers directly, i.e. a pointer to an object containing a pointer d...
In this challenge, the goal is to recreate the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences one sequence at a time. Similar to the Evolution of Hello World, each answer depends on a previous answer.
Over time, this challenge will create a "family tree" of the OEIS sequences. It is simple to add o...
In the meantime, I've found an amazing sequence that doesn't start with 2, but I'm not sure I can be bothered to implement it in Fission. Trying with Mathematica for now.
(this actually looks sufficiently fun to post as a separate code golf)
Is there anyone in here who hasn't created a root yet?
(if you honestly want to be technical, a second root node will not appear on the answer list or count towards your score, but will appear on the diagram)
Right, but it's not the same as "golfing" the sport. Golf balls never appear here. I just think we could choose something more appropriate (and applicable, as code-golf is only one type of question).
@Calvin'sHobbies I think we should focus on the 'programming puzzles' part, as 'code golf' is A) a subset of programming puzzles and b) the only reason it's there is because that's the biggest part of our site.
Oh, I agree. I just think it's funny that we have code golf explicitly in our title, whereas they don't use MTG in theirs. Both are a subset of the actual content, though large ones.
I wasn't around when it formed, but I assume it's just because the original idea started to kick golf off of SO. Puzzles were added to broaden the focus, but somehow golf got left in the name.
King of the Sausage
This is just a rough idea that I think would be fun, but as I do not have the time to do it right now, feel free to adopt (just let us know in order to avoid collisions.)
I believe I saw this 'game' in a tv show once: Two competitors are each given a sausage of equal weight....
I started a single player Minecraft a few weeks ago, and decided to make my home a giant redwood tree. I add two rooms at the base on either side and rounded the tops so they would seem natural.
Wait a minute. I've never used them, but why not use a Stack Snippet that shows all the posts edited within the last 2 weeks or so, and (again, have not used them) sorts them by tag in the header? — ASCIIThenANSI21 hours ago
Last Nonzero Digits of a Factorial
code-golf factorial base-conversion
You should write a program or function which given three positive integers n b k as input outputs or returns the last k digits before the trailing zeros in the base b representation of n!.
Example
n=7 b=5 k=4
n!=5040
5040 ...
I do not know if I am intelligent enough, but I am ready to give 100% effort to this. Even if I am not intelligent, Will this 100% effort give me a PhD??
Invent a programming language that does crazy things
Note: This type of challenge is up for discussion. I am making this community wiki, so you can help me out.
Man, have you seen some of the crazy programming languages out there? We've got Pyth, CJam, GolfScript, and we even have one calle...
Pointer to pointers to pointers to pointers
You should choose a language supporting pointers like C. And your task is simple: demonstrate a legitimate use of the most level of pointers.
Other rules:
They must be pointers to pointers directly, i.e. a pointer to an object containing a pointer d...
In this challenge, the goal is to recreate the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences one sequence at a time. Similar to the Evolution of Hello World, each answer depends on a previous answer.
Over time, this challenge will create a "family tree" of the OEIS sequences. It is simple to add o...
King of the Sausage
This is just a rough idea that I think would be fun, but as I do not have the time to do it right now, feel free to adopt (just let us know in order to avoid collisions.)
I believe I saw this 'game' in a tv show once: Two competitors are each given a sausage of equal weight....
