@TheBitByte I don' think I understand the challenge. I think you're looking for the output of an equation (eval'd or the like) where the variables are substituted with the corresponding term from the corresponding sequence?
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@TheBitByte You would probably also be better off (after you have the challenge cleaned up and ready to go) to abandon the current challenge and post it entirely new again.
Just an FYI, this user has been posting answers in (most likely) fictional languages, and providing fake links that don't work when asked for the language link.
@TheBitByte I also think the image of Fibonacci's series is very distracting. It's in a significantly larger font and bright red, so it really draws the eye.
I said, I think if you use a letter distinction, it will improve readability. Like instead of (1st term of Recamán's sequence + 2nd term of Recamán's sequence) + (56th term of Recamán's sequence - 34th term of Recamán's sequence) ... do (1R + 2R) + (56R -34R) ...
Below are the descriptions/formulae of the sequences you'll need to use for this challenge:
Recamán's sequence:
a0 = 0; for n > 0, an = an-1 - n
if positive and not already in the sequence, otherwise
an = an-1 + n
Fibonacci sequence:
an = (Φn – (–Φ)–n...
@Dennis I don't feel like cluttering up the comments, so I'm moving to chat. I understand that reposting instead of fixing will contribute to the question ban, but in this case I don't think it was really bad form. The current challenge is a lot higher quality than the old one, and I think at this point the old one is unsalvageable. It'll probably stay negative no matter what
@DrMcMoylex The last revision of the original challenge is almost identical to the new question, so I don't understand the quality difference. Yes, having a question with a score of -8 isn't pleasant, but that should more or less correct itself if the question has been fixed.
All courses of action are suboptimal at this point, but (in my opinion) the downvotes that remain are the price you pay for posting an utterly unclear and poorly formatted question in the first place and eastign everyone's time. It's not like @TheBitByte doesn't know about the sandbox. While not mandatory, skipping it for a convoluted challenge like this one is a very bad idea.
@Dennis I've used them to get feedback from other mods, especially when it's my own content. Another mod on C.SE has used them as a note-to-self feature.
Hey, upvoter on my challenge, you can't possibly have read it, understood it, and determined it was worthy of an upvote in ten seconds. Not that I'm complaining about the +5, but c'mon ... :D
This is my first puzzle, so I'm trying to be as specific as possible and am happy to get poked to any loopholes it might have.
You are given a mxn matrix of numbers, that have two possible integer entries
a and b. A sliding window of size c is moving over the array and the following rules applie...
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So, there's this History.SE question about large-scale protests after US presidential elections, and I'm quite amused by the top answer, which says that South Carolina protested Abraham Lincoln's election by starting the Civil War. Sure puts the recent election into perspective. :P
Showerthought: Maybe there are creatures that are made of dark matter that look up into the skies at nights, and say to the creature next to it "Hey Botzig, do you think there are creatures that made of dark matter?" xkcd.com/1758
@PhiNotPi Okay, if you draw one for gravity, all the lines point inward towards the center. You can also draw one based on dy/dx = x/y which is circular. Can both of these be represented by a single matrix with different numbers in it?
@PhiNotPi Yeah. In a sense, I'm trying to figure out if a given differential equation can be represented in a matrix, but now that I've put it that way, that can't be right.
I was thinking about forking my Spacewar! game so I could add little dots like missiles that are short-lived but show how gravity pulls objects at different points in the playing field. Then I thought about changing the differential equation to something else, and that's when I had the idea of continuously deforming from one "slope field" to another, while playing the game.
In other words, the answerer must provide or explain some way or form to run their answer on a computer. This would apply to new answers only, assuming the required consensus is reached.
If the answer cannot be run on a computer at all, it is not allowed.
What do you think about this?
@MartinEnder Let me elaborate a bit more. Puzzling.SE is an SE site for puzzles. We're a site for programming puzzles. We then must establish an objective definition of "What is programming?", as to perhaps disallow non-programming answers. We don't want to turn into a generic puzzling site.
@El'endiaStarman well, now that we have that sorted out, it shouldn't be too hard to add a couple sliders to the game to change the direction of gravity in whichever way.
@PhiNotPi A would have to be either circular or radial, since the only unaffected vector is the 0 vector. B would be flowing towards or away from a given line, and C would be in one of three configurations regarding flowing towards or away from two lines. I think that's what they correspond to.
@quartata Extra Credits did an episode on why there are so few MMORTS (good ones, at least), and the conclusion was basically that it's really hard to balance them since players get more powerful over time and the more they play.
@PhiNotPi That's what I was thinking, yeah. Though I suppose those asymptotes aren't properly eigenvectors?
Wait, yes they are, since multiples of eigenvectors have their magnitudes changed by the vector field, but not their directions.
This is the cops' thread. For the robbers' thread, click here.
Cops' Task
First, write a quine in a language of your choosing.
Next, scramble the quine. Make sure to do this well as the robbers will be trying to unscramble it and find the original source code!
Post an answer on this thread. In...
This is the robbers' thread. For the cops' thread, click here.
Cops' Task
For the cops' thread, click here.
Robbers' Task
Find an uncracked submission on the cops' thread. (A submission may only be cracked once.)
Unscramble the code to find a working quine.
Post an answer on the robbers' thr...