Your program is supposed to create a full red screen in MSDOS. The source of the binary (.com file) must be 5 bytes or less. No wild assumptions, the binary must work in MsDos, DosBox, and FreeDos alike. For winning, you have to post x86 assembler code which can be assembled with NASM (FASM) or d...

Do my data follow Benford's law or a uniform distibution? Background Benford's law, also known as the law of anomalous numbers, describes the distribution of the leading digit in many numerical data sets. Let \$X\$ be the leading digit of an observation (in base 10). According to Benford's law, \...

A little while back, data was frequently stored on punched card. A typical card would have 80 columns of 12 possible 'punch' positions. A plethora of encodings was used, each for their own specific purpose. These days we like to think of a byte as 8 bits. In this challenge, you're tasked to conve...

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Due to the submission count, we have selected al...

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...