The Nineteenth Byte

I hit it up sometimes when there aren't any challenges I want to do here, but it's about the same as before. Not much has changed recently that I can tell.

Sp3000

:(

feersum

Puzzling would be a lot cooler if they removed all the challenges that don't require programming.

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7:49 PM

The last time I visited Puzzling I posted an answer which was better than all of the existing ones and the only vote I got was a -1. Ho hum.

Can't blame ya there. Voting there is as odd as it is on EL&U to my eye.

@Geobits jeez, your first puzzle and you got it totally wrong about the Russian thing? :p

Yea... I'm shocked. My whole life I thought this thing was Russian. Looking stuff up and finding out you're wrong sucks.

Optimizer

In a parallel chat, people would be discussing how PPCG would be a lot cooler if it removed programming puzzles

arguably better than continuing to be wrong though :p

7:56 PM

Arguably :p

hmm, so.. 2 popular related things from Hungary, one of which is thought (by some people) to be Russian

@Geobits Stalin? ;)

Nah, I'll count him as Russian still ;)

Vioz-

I've gotten nowhere :P

@aditsu It's quite possible that nobody else thinks it's Russian. I don't ever remember being told that, at least. Just my assumption as far as I know, but it's possible others have made the same mistake.

8:04 PM

there are not a lot of things from Hungary that I know by name.. unless I don't know they're from there :p

huh, John von Neumann was Hungarian :)

Rubik's cube is an obvious one, but none of the other Rubik's toys seem to be from 1981.

the cube doesn't really go well with ice though..

I'm puzzled about the ratios. 16 :: 9 is very different to 56 :: 26, but it's hard to justify any other numbers for those clues. At a stretch I could argue for 56 : 52, but that's not very similar to TV ratios either.

Unless they're describing very different properties of the two objects.

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Different, if not very different. Hard call.

things like "sixth pyramid, or eight times the days" are why I hate riddles :p

8:18 PM

That's definitely 56. They both check out.

makes as much sense to me as "correct horse battery staple"

You have to hold your horse batteries together somehow, and I'd recommend using the correct staples.

56 / 26 is approx. the atomic mass / atomic number ratio of iron, but oxygen is 16 / 8 and fluorine is 19 / 9.

The numbers are exact, no approximation needed.

great, now I'm stuck reading about the Gömböc

8:44 PM

so anyway, I give up, let me know when the answer is revealed :p

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Q: graph isomorphism

this challenge is partly inspired by a recent se question(s) by Jim and ensuing extended discussion related to the graph isomorphism problem. GI is a major area of research in (T)CS and a very old problem, presumably dating to the invention of graphs by Euler over 2 centuries ago. it is conjectur...

@Optimizer and btw, Pluto is a planet, though not a major planet :) dwarf planets are planets too

Optimizer

umm so?

Q: Most efficient table storage for determining recurrence

nothing, just sayin' :)

Optimizer

I know.

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9:09 PM

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The goal of this challenge is to implement a storage and retrieval pattern that will most quickly determine if a set of recurrence definitions fall within a date range. Consider the schema: Event -|--has one or many--<- Schedules Schedule is a record defining a recurrence, e.g. Monthly, every ...

code-challenge date data-structures

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10:35 PM

Any ides on what's missing? http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fifth
I know there could be a lot more operators, like & and _, but I don't know what to make them.