Drilling for oil A code-golf challenge! Congratulations! You have just been hired by a Fortune 499 company specializing in oil drilling. Your job is to write a program to determine the optimum placement of OilRUs' drills (represented by an alphabetical character of your choice, I use a capital...

The Challenge Given 3 numbers X, Y and Z in base B, find a B in which the addition of X and Y yields Z. The inputs x = 2 0, Y = 1 2 and Z = 3 2 could yield 5 because 2 0 + 1 2 = 3 2 in base 5. You can assume that there will always be a base in which the addition is correct (I suspect that thi...

Introduction Let's define a ternary function as a function from the three-element set S = {0,1,2} to itself: it associates to each element of S another element of S. One example of a ternary function f is f(0) = 0; f(1) = 2; f(2) = 0 There are exactly 27 different ternary functions, and we re...

Hello PowerShell Experts, I am working on a simple code that produces a list of product and task (A product has several task) with the time spend on it "Randomly". I want the totalTime add up the time to 40 (integer) (and can be changed as user defined e.g. 50 , 60, etc). The code is working fi...

In honor of recent news of Google developing a keyboard for iPhone... Your input (for simplicity, all input is case sensitive): Location of standard dictionary file. File format is 1 valid word per line; in alphabetical order. Example file: apple banana citrus domino durian orange tuna Locat...

In light of a recent code golf challenge in which the specification restricts participation to JavaScript, I think it's time we revisited making a hard rule about language-specific golfs. We may discourage such challenges, but ultimately they aren't off topic. Consider Sklivvz's comment: Eith...