The Nineteenth Byte

quartata

12:02 AM

It's just an empty lambda

Conor O'Brien

darn right it is :D

Phoenix

12:13 AM

Oh god, another way to be scared by C++

What did they do to the poor lambdas

Conor O'Brien

what's wrong with them?

(on a side note I can probably make you fear any language, or at least my use of that language)

Phoenix

They're weird

@ConorO'Brien Some langs, like PHP and JS, are just bad. C++ isn't, but it is terrifying.

Conor O'Brien

PHP and JS each have their own purpose. They're hardly worth calling "bad"

Phoenix

Yeah, they have a purpose, but they could have been implemented to fulfill that purpose in a far better way.

Conor O'Brien

Just because a language can be better, doesn't mean its bad. All languages can be made better. Perhaps some more so than others. Each language excels in certain areas, enough to make it a good language. Where PHP lacks in consistency in function naming, e.g., it makes up for this lack with an intuitive programming style. Where JavaScript lacks a decent type system, it makes up for it with (e.g.) asynchronous functions

There are few truly bad languages. Those are the ones for which the creator cared little about the language itself and had no vision for it. I have yet to find a language that is "bad". Some languages are worse than others, but beyond this there is no objective "worst" language.

quartata

12:27 AM

To be fair JS's flavor of asynchronicity is very narrowly focused which is why some people don't like it

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Q: Decompose a number into triangles

Given an integer n, decompose it into a sum of maximal triangular numbers (where Tm represents the mth triangular number, or the sum of the integers from 1 to m) as follows: while n > 0, find the largest possible triangular number Tm such that Tm ≤ n. append m to the triangular-decomposition ...

Conor O'Brien

I can see that. it's a nice thing to have in a browser tho, even if narrow

PhiNotPi

> Recompose a triangle into numbers

Geobits

12:40 AM

@Doorknob Maybe that shouldn't say the sum of maximal triangles since you're doing a weird concat instead :/

Doorknob

@Geobits Well, outputting the sum itself would just reduce the challenge to writing a cat program.

Geobits

Yeah... but it's still a really weird way to say you're doing some symbol-based strings.

Or base-36 if you like that better

But it's definitely not a sum

Doorknob

It does represent a sum, though.

Geobits

Well so does 35. It's the sum of 17 and 18. I don't generally call it that though :P

ATaco

35 also represents a product!

Geobits

12:51 AM

No no, it's clearly a quotient.

Conor O'Brien

I prefer to think of it as a root

ATaco

35 is a very interesting number.

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Geobits

I just think it would read better like this:

> Given an integer n, decompose it into ~~a sum of~~ maximal triangular numbers (where Tm represents the mth triangular number, or the sum of the integers from 1 to m) as follows:

ATaco

35 is part of 34413 OEIS sequances.

Conor O'Brien

CMC: find any N that is part of N OEIS sequences.

Geobits

12:55 AM

Is there not a sequence for that? :P

quartata

one moment

It'll take a while but just started a script

Think I'm getting ratelimited

Probably should increase the sleep

Challenger5

Why does this output 2?

Geobits

Because 05AB1E likes 05ab1e too?

quartata

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A: The RATS sequence

05AB1E, 6 bytes Code: $FDR+{ Explanation: $ # Push 1 and input F # For N in range(0, input) D # Duplicate top of the stack R # Reverse top of the stack + # Add top two items { # Sort top of the stack # Implicitly print top of the stack This also ...

> This also works with a 0 byte program

Challenger5

@Geobits That would be a narcissist (sorry, it's in CJam)

ETHproductions

1:18 AM

I went to load codegolf.stackexchange.com and got "It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error." Did anyone else get that?

Reloading fixed it though