Determining the Dominant Bit code-golf string
Challenge
Your code, which can be a standalone program or a function, should take an input string. You can assume the string only consists of ASCII characters.
The program should then print or return 0 if the text contains more 0-bits, 1 if it con...
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Circle Line Art Thingy
If you perform this algorithm but leave out a specific set of connections you get recognizable pictures.
This post is a placeholder till I have a chance to remember what this is called, and concoct a scoring system.
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The Squaring Sequence
Each term in the squaring sequence, xn, is created by taking xn-1, squaring it, and removing all but the first four digits.
The sequence always begins with x0 = 1111. Squaring this yields 1234321, so x1 = 1234
The first few terms are:
1111
1234
1522
2316
5363
...
Th...
