Whereas: we are unsure about where exactly we fit into the SE mission others sometimes don't take us seriously the site has been languishing in beta with minimal communication from SE for years we have, after receiving explicit advice to expand our horizons, consistently failed to do so I hav...

Primitive Roots of Unity code-golf number-theory Let z be a complex number. zis an nth primitive root of unity if for a certain positive integer n and for any positive integer k < n . Challenge Write a full program or function that, given a positive integer n as input, outputs all of the nth...

A loose spellchecker John Doe used to be one of the fastest QWERTY keyboard typists in the world, but a recent head injury caused by a stampeding goatherd has critically hampered his ability to type accurately. In a desperate effort to retain his reputation, he has tasked us with the creation of...

Show the Top Five Comments on a SE Post code-golf sequence A Stack Exchange script determines which five comments on questions or answers are initially seen on the main page of sites through the number of upvotes on them; the five comments with the highest number of votes are displayed. Your ta...

Intersecting Tunnels code-golfarray-manipulation A gopher is given a set of tunneling instructions in the form of a list like so: 2 2 3 6 4 4 1 2 3 For each element n in the list, the gopher digs a tunnel n meters long then turns 90 degrees clockwise. The above instructions, assuming the g...

John Doe used to be one of the fastest QWERTY keyboard typists in the world, but a recent head injury caused by a stampeding goatherd has critically hampered his ability to type accurately. In a desperate effort to retain his reputation as a typing prodigy, he has tasked us with the creation of a...