Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program that outputs a positive integer (higher than 0). The tricky part is that if I duplicate your source code, the output must be double the original integer.
Rules
You must build a full program.
The initial source must be at least 1 byte l...
The story is "The Homework Horror" by Greg Cox. It was originally printed in Amazing Stories Vol. 62 #1, but was reprinted in Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares II: More Tales to Make You Scream, which is probably where you read it.
And the evil number in the book is 5, not 3.
Five stayed ...
I got suspended a while back, and have changed since then. I don't mind talking about it if people ask, or if it is on-topic to the conversation. However, whenever I talk about my suspension, I get the feeling that it is banned, similar to talking about other people's suspensions.
So are we allo...
C (Modern Linux), 19 bytes
I suggested in chat, but nobody took the oppurtunity. :P
main(){puts('s');;}
Error message, 20 bytes
Segmentation fault
Perl is a very free and expressive language, so expressive in fact, that it even lets you call undefined methods on classes! This can be done using Perl's AUTOLOAD feature. Using AUTOLOAD, undefined method calls are redirected to an AUTOLOAD subroutine where they will be handled appropriately.
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