@flawr Kinda, but only in high school. We use smaller distances for lower grades and longer ones for higher. So it's feet (12), yards (3), miles (1760), leagues (3 again).
Eh, most of our tests were multiple choice for the longest time. I don't know what it was actually supposed to test, but it's a good way to make kids really good at multiple choice I guess.
@Geobits A while ago I had my first multiple choice test with those machine readable sheets. As I had no experience with these before, the most difficult part was getting my name on there.
When I was in school there was "research" done that concluded that the answer is more often C than A, B, or D. I remember one kid didn't study and put C for every answer in a True/False quiz
To be clear, I didn't mean it as an insult to anyone. I just find the word "civilians" awkward, and there aren't too many other ways to say it that flow well.
d - an uncursed scroll of scare monster
h - a scroll labeled KARSUS
j - 2 scrolls labeled READ ME
p - a scroll labeled HLY HLS
y - 2 scrolls labeled JUYED AWK YACC
z - a scroll labeled FOOBIE BLETCH
L - a scroll of scare monster
M - a scroll labeled VERR YED HORRE
S - a scroll labeled ZELGO MER
I guess. All the symbols strung together like that look weird, but $ and @ are just datatype indicators called sigils
then again parentheses are not really all that necessary in perl and half of the builtin functions implicitly take $_ as a parameter so you don't even need to specify anything
Background:
Most numbers can be written with only 6 different symbols:
e (Euler's Constant)
- (Subtraction, Not Negation)
^ (Exponentiation)
(
)
ln (Natural Logarithm)
For example, you could convert the imaginary number i using this equation:
(e-e-e^(e-e))^(e^(e-e-ln(e^(e-e)-(e-e-e^(e-e)...
There is quite a basic way of "encoding" a piece of text so that it can be easily decrypted but still looks quite difficult. This is called square encoding.
The way that one square encodes a piece of text is like this:
Step 1
Get an inputted piece of text and remove the spaces.
Step 2
Make t...
There is quite a basic way of "encoding" a piece of text so that it can be easily decrypted but still looks quite difficult. This is called square encoding.
The way that one square encodes a piece of text is like this:
Step 1
Get an inputted piece of text and remove the spaces.
Step 2
Make t...
Sushi Man, make me some sushi
It's lunch time, I am hungry and I came to your Sushi Bar. You are the Sushi Man and you have to make me some sushi! Although you have limited ingredients (due to a truck drivers strike) it will be fine for me.
The ingredients you have (in plenty amount) are:
Nor...
@El'endiaStarman maybe this is just me, but I think that "the mods are asleep" (without supporting messages) isn't encouraging people to post noise. Did you move a bunch of messages or something?
@NathanMerrill There was a message posted immediately before that one (which I replied to, and which was subsequently deleted [though not by me]) that basically said "if the mods weren't such jerks, I could post the face ._.".
@NathanMerrill ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Idioms haven't really had much time to catch up to the existence of a text-only environment.
@NathanMerrill Nope. That tripped me up when I was first working on the TNBDE because I see them in the transcript.
But that's really because I'm a chat mod. I was later surprised to find out that ordinary users also don't see them in live chat if they refresh the page after a message was deleted.
@flawr I, as a mod, can see deleted messages in the transcript. If I look at it while logged out, I can't see them. That's why scraping the transcript didn't yield any deleted messages for TNBDE.
@NathanMerrill Not even mods can undelete messages.
Guys, I have a question for you. Given an iterable, say the string "abacadabra", what's the golfiest way to get the ... ranking of the iterable, in this case [0, 5, 1, 7, 2, 8, 3, 6, 9, 4]
Summary
Given a list of integers, return the index each integer would end up at when sorted.
For example, if the list was [0,8,-1,5,8], you should return [1,3,0,2,4]. Note that the two 8s maintain their order relative to each other (the sort is stable).
Put another way: For each element in t...
Background:
Most numbers can be written with only 6 different symbols:
e (Euler's Constant)
- (Subtraction, Not Negation)
^ (Exponentiation)
(
)
ln (Natural Logarithm)
For example, you could convert the imaginary number i using this equation:
(e-e-e^(e-e))^(e^(e-e-ln(e^(e-e)-(e-e-e^(e-e)...
There is quite a basic way of "encoding" a piece of text so that it can be easily decrypted but still looks quite difficult. This is called square encoding.
The way that one square encodes a piece of text is like this:
Step 1
Get an inputted piece of text and remove the spaces.
Step 2
Make t...
Sushi Man, make me some sushi
It's lunch time, I am hungry and I came to your Sushi Bar. You are the Sushi Man and you have to make me some sushi! Although you have limited ingredients (due to a truck drivers strike) it will be fine for me.
The ingredients you have (in plenty amount) are:
Nor...
Summary
Given a list of integers, return the index each integer would end up at when sorted.
For example, if the list was [0,8,-1,5,8], you should return [1,3,0,2,4]. Note that the two 8s maintain their order relative to each other (the sort is stable).
Put another way: For each element in t...
