So, in the last couple months, I have seen several (especially JavaScript) quines told that they are cheating because they stringify a function. Accordingly, I thought that was the standard - it's reading its source, of course it's cheating.
Wikipedia's section on cheating quines includes the fo...
So, in the last couple months, I have seen several (especially JavaScript) quines told that they are cheating because they stringify a function. Accordingly, I thought that was the standard - it's reading its source, of course it's cheating.
Wikipedia's section on cheating quines includes the fo...
So, in the last couple months, I have seen several (especially JavaScript) quines told that they are cheating because they stringify a function. Accordingly, I thought that was the standard - it's reading its source, of course it's cheating.
Wikipedia's section on cheating quines includes the fo...
It's not a cheating quine
The meta post you quote contains the following example of a proper quine in CJam.
{"_~"}_~
{"_~"} defines a block (anonymous function). It won't be executed, so it's left on the stack and printed implicitly when the program finishes. The following _~ pushes a copy of...
I want to build a figure using it's RLE representation. I ran into a problem with "Lobster" figure, particulary with this part:
10bo2bo2$
How should I interpret '2' in the end of line? I have no clue because there are no symbols following it.
Recently, there have been some challenges involving the OEIS. Specifically, when given an index as input, the challenge spec involves output the item in the OEIS at that index. However, for constant sequences, there have been answers that discard the input because it is not needed to calculate th...
For instance, consider the following un-golfed submission in c to some code-golf challenge requiring the use of a while looping construct:
void function() {
int a, b;
while(a != b) {
// Do something
}
}
Although the while loop would be invoked most of the time, there is...
(inspired by a question over on Code Review)
Suppose two people are playing Hangman, but you've only overheard the game and want to draw the current status.
Given two words as input, where the words each match [A-Z]+ or [a-z]+ (your choice), output the current state of the hangman game as ASCII...
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Chebyshev Polynomials are a family of orthogonal polynomials that pop up in all kinds of places in math, and they have a lot of quite interesting properties. One characterization of them is that they satisfy T_n(cos(x)) = cos(n*x).
Challenge
Given an nonnegative ...
In this question I defined a "chain" function as a function that:
is Bijective from a set to itself, meaning that every value maps to and is mapped to by exactly one value.
and allows any value can be obtained from any other value by repeated applications of the function or its inverse.
There...
Will it rain? image-processing popularity-contest
The challenge is essentially: given an image of the sky (without foreign entities in the way like birds, trees, or my brother), predict whether or not it will rain in the next hour or so. To generate these test cases, I will take a picture of the...
Inspired by this, this and this.
So, now that the evil farmer has set your field on fire, you naturally want to put it out. You have a bunch of friends who all have buckets, and you want a program to figure out where to place everyone to save as much of your wheat as possible.
Your Task:
...
