We can roll up the natural numbers in a rectangular spiral:
17--16--15--14--13
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18 5---4---3 12
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19 6 1---2 11
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20 7---8---9--10
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21--22--23--24--25
But now that we have them on a rectangular grid we can unwind the spir...
@RikerW Thanks. I just happened to notice a patter right after the challenge was posted. (I haven't looked at the OEIS page yet.) Take another look if you want a basic explanation.
I found another way to do it that should work on pages that don't have special onclick behavior, which suits my purposes
yay now I have JS bookmarklets that when clicked will insert a ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), ಠ_ಠ, or ¯_(ツ)_/¯ to next textarea that is clicked (such as the box I am typing this message in)
Create a user specified number of text files in the current working directory, labelled as 1.txt, 2.txt... With the same numbers as their names occupying the first line. The second line of the text file should contain the current md5 sum. Now, since the data in the file has been modified, the thi...
@VoteToClose Thanks for bumping me over 3000 rep! :D I always try to have thorough explanations of my code so people not familiar with how PowerShell works (but still understand programming) can follow along.
@RikerW I know. ;_; Luckily in Washington you don't need to be registered with a party to vote in caucuses. Though I was considering registering just to be able to vote for Bernie.
Stop the dance!
Your sister was at the hospital, but now she's fine, awfully, you lost a day of work, one of your most important days.
You work at your local television, and they have a contest, called "Stop the dance!", what is it about?: People is dancing, they have a big screen in the wall, ...
@RikerW PowerShell began over a decade ago out of a desire to expand and update the command-line based language of earlier Windows (e.g., BATCH and derivatives)
The basic idea is to write a program that twists itself, and the twisted version untwists itself. The first program will just be the twisting algorithm described here, and when given its own source code as input, outputs a program that reverses the twisting algorithm.
How strings are twisted
Th...
As a simple example, $a=@(1,2,3) creates an array [1,2,3] and sets it to $a. We can then send that, as an object, through the pipeline. For example, $a | Foreach-Object{<do stuff>}
But, with the cmdlets that Maltysen references (that's the real term, cmdlet), you can manipulate objects even further
Apply an indefinite integral to a given string. The only rules you will be using are defined as such:
∫cx^(n)dx = (c/(n+1))x^(n+1) + C, n ≠ -1
c, C, and n are all constants.
Specifications:
You must be able to integrate polynomials with any of the possible features:
A coefficient, possibly...
That's the point, though ... if whatever script or function I'm coding writes its output to the pipeline as an object, I don't have to re-do all of that extraneous stuff
If it's properly pipelined, you can do stuff without worrying about the exact format of the string you're passing from one command to the next, like you would in *sh
Now instead of ConvertTo-HTML and the rest, pipe those into a different cmdlet that executes an msi
Maybe instead of Get-ADComputer I want to read input from a text file
Or maybe this is the fifth phase in some other thing, and there's a bunch of pre-processing that filters the results based on some other metric that replaces the Get-ADComputer
If I was using *sh, I would have needed to rewrite at least part of my script to properly handle input/output
Fundamentally, that's what differentiates PowerShell
Unfortunately, the vast, vast, vast majority of challenges posted here don't even get close to that level of detail or abstraction, so a lot of PowerShell's advantages don't come through in code golf competitions.
"strongly" typed is a strong word for PowerShell typing ...
We can roll up the natural numbers in a rectangular spiral:
17--16--15--14--13
| |
18 5---4---3 12
| | | |
19 6 1---2 11
| | |
20 7---8---9--10
|
21--22--23--24--25
But now that we have them on a rectangular grid we can unwind the spir...
Stop the dance!
Your sister was at the hospital, but now she's fine, awfully, you lost a day of work, one of your most important days.
You work at your local television, and they have a contest, called "Stop the dance!", what is it about?: People is dancing, they have a big screen in the wall, ...
The basic idea is to write a program that twists itself, and the twisted version untwists itself. The first program will just be the twisting algorithm described here, and when given its own source code as input, outputs a program that reverses the twisting algorithm.
How strings are twisted
Th...
Apply an indefinite integral to a given string. The only rules you will be using are defined as such:
∫cx^(n)dx = (c/(n+1))x^(n+1) + C, n ≠ -1
c, C, and n are all constants.
Specifications:
You must be able to integrate polynomials with any of the possible features:
A coefficient, possibly...
