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Q: (Σ*)² ⟲ Σ* (Round-Trip a String Pair)

QuelklefWe're back! And this time with an objective scoring criteria! This is a challenge I thought of recently which I think is not hard but allows for a wide range of possible solutions. Seems like a perfect fit for the creativity of PPCG users :) Your Task Define two functions combine and separate wi...

 
can't wait to see arnauld solve it
 
disappointed it isn't actually making ascii-art hexes :(
 
@RedwolfPrograms Nice:Popular = 82:43, Good:Notable = 15:12. I don't have any Great or Famous yet.
 
@Bubbler Looks good to me
 
 
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1:15 AM
CMP: Dennis has 10 gold tag badges. Do you have more gold badges than Dennis has gold tag badges?
(Spoiler alert: unless you have >27k, the answer is no :P)
Exactly 12 users (not counting Dennis) have the same number or more, gold badges than Dennis has tag badges
 
@ChartZBelatedly No, I have only three. I don't think I'll get close in foreseeable future, even with Socratic (and Legendary).
Any kind of post-related gold badges are freaking hard to earn these days
 
@Bubbler How close are you to Legendary?
 
75/150
 
@Bubbler Amen. Can't remember the last time I saw a +100 post from the last year or so
@Bubbler Damn, that's pretty good :P
 
The least impossible one would be Famous question (10k views on a single question). I have at least two questions that have over 5k views (that is, 50% progress). I have zero questions over score 50.
 
1:24 AM
You're 60% of the way on this
 
Yeah, I saw it
 
Which is weird, cause I don't recognise that challenge :/
 
which is pretty early one of mine
 
@Bubbler That;s a weird phenomenon I've noticed. A user's earlier challenges tend to get more views and votes
 
Looks fun on the surface but actually is not of great quality, at least in my standards
 
1:27 AM
This was my 5th challenge and this was my 16th, yet my 99th challenge just got a downvote with no explanation :(
 
@ChartZBelatedly It's simply because it has got more time to accumulate views and votes (possibly from different people active in different periods of time)
A challenge posted today can only receive upvotes from people active these days. A challenge posted 3 years ago also received upvotes from people active three years ago but not active today.
 
@Bubbler Yeah, but not all older challenges get more views. I have multiple challenges that I posted within a few days of One OEIS after another which got <500 views, but the answer-chaining somehow got 17k+ views and +103
 
It highly depends on the sustained activity on the question, yes
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

ChartZ BelatedlyUnique languages As we found out before, each of the 680 languages on Try it online! has a "TIO uniqueness", defined as the length of the shortest substring that appeared in the language's name and no others'. This time, we're going to make it more general. Given a list of strings S and a target ...

 
and easy questions tend to get revived from time to time and attract easy answers
This one is an interesting exception because it is at the top of my questions list despite being a pretty hard challenge
 
1:35 AM
@Bubbler It's an interesting "ability" you get after golfing for a while: the ability to scan the first few sentences of a challenge and go "yeah, I'm not going to try this". That was my response to reading that :P
I'm bored, so I went through Martin's badges to see which ones he doesn't have (cause he has a lot). Turns out that, of the badges that at least one person has, Martin is missing 6: Precognitive, Beta, Marshal, Archaeologist, Peer Pressure and Research Assistant
@HyperNeutrino Given that your OSP answer is at +9 with no downvotes, is it ok to move OSP into here?
 
2:30 AM
TIL military tanks were originally called "landships", and they got the name "tank" as a security measure so that they would seem like water carrying vehicles
Probably wasn't as good of a cover story for these
 
3:12 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

BubblerTruncate continued fractions code-golf math rational-numbers Background A continued fraction is a way to represent a real number as a sequence of integers in the following sense: $$ x = a_0 + \frac{1}{a_1 + \frac{1}{a_2 + \frac{1}{\ddots + \frac{1}{a_n}}}} = [a_0; a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n] $$ Finite co...

 
@ChartZBelatedly sure, I'd say go ahead
 
3:51 AM
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Q: Average impact of multiple conversion errors

Redwolf ProgramsImagine four people stand in a line. The first looks at a thermometer, and tells the temperature to the person on their right. This continues down the line, until the last person writes the temperature on a sheet of paper. Unfortunately, due to a miscommunication, every person in the line convert...

 
 
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4:54 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

hakr14Sum of two squares code-golf math number-theory decision-problem Given an integer \$n\$, determine whether \$n\$ can be expressed as the sum of two square numbers, that is \$\exists a,b\in\mathbb Z|n=a^2+b^2\$. 0 -> truthy 1 -> truthy 2 -> truthy 3 -> falsy 4 -> truthy 5 -> trut...

 
 
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6:24 AM
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Q: Check B-powersmoothness

Command Masterfrom Wikipedia, a number is called B-powersmooth if all prime powers \$p^v\$ that divide the number satisfy \$p^v \leq B\$. B-powersmoothness is important, for example, for Pollard's p-1 factorization algorithm. Task your task is to get two numbers, \$n\$ and \$B\$, and output if \$n\$ is \$B\$-p...

 
 
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9:24 AM
well, that's a new low for me, writing a comment for an empty line. I look forward to writing a comment for an empty string.
 
10:19 AM
@Neil "this line does absolutely nothing"?
 
@Lyxal ah, but it doesn't, which is why it needed commenting
(in particular, removing the line just makes the program output 1 for all inputs)
 
Ah sounds like code golf then
I suppose that's logical then
 
10:47 AM
How can we see the exact UTC time here?
 
@Wasif What do you mean by "here"?
 
@Adám in The nineteenth byte
UTC time is same across world I know, but still how to know it using the chatroom
 
why not google it
 
@rak1507 I just asked if there is any way to UTC time in SE chat, I know other ways of seeing it
 
don't think so
 
10:54 AM
Heh, when the APL chat bot was still working in the APL chat room, you could ask it.
 
@Adám thanks!
 
11:57 AM
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Q: Fibonacci Encoding

pxegerFibonacci coding is a universal code, which can encode positive integers of any size in an unambiguous stream of bits. To encode an integer \$ n \$: Find the largest Fibonacci number less than or equal to \$ n \$; subtract this number from \$ n \$, keeping track of the remainder If the number su...

 
12:19 PM
huh, when I called ChartZBelatedly out on his time error I was sure that I managed to get a UTC display at some point but I don't remember how
 
12:35 PM
Announcement: Just under half an hour left until APL Seeds '21!
 
@Wasif If "here" includes SE itself, you can click the "achievements" (trophy) thing and it has the current UTC time
 
 
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3:45 PM
Bit quiet today
 
This is right around the time most conversation starts here, I'd imagine most people were either asleep or busy before now
(depending on time zones)
 
The N hours later is such a waste of space :)
 
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Q: i have this assignment due can anyone help

edwinThe goal of this assignment is to write a program that uses the jService to print a question and the corresponding answer. To get a random question, simply send an HTTP request to ' http://jservice.io/api/random'. The response will be in JSON format: This is an example of response from jService: [{"

 
CMQ: At what UTC time do you sleep? (Approximately)
 
I don't sleep in UTC time :)
 
3:51 PM
@Wezl So when
 
Roughly 05:00 to 12:00 UTC on weekdays
 
I sleep from around 23-24:00 UTC on weekdays
Our school is closed again and tutions become online because of the new strike of pandemic
 
@Wasif sometime between 0000 and 2400
 
@Razetime we are in approximately in same time zone
 
@Wasif depends on daylight savings time, but currently 8:30pm - 5:30am. Yes I go to bed early what are you gonna do about it
 
3:58 PM
@pxeger No i just meant to take a short survey
 
@Wezl It is, isn't it? I should make myself a userscript for that.
 
I swear there is only a paragraph or two of information on Mobile Personnel Shields in WWI on the entire internet and everything that mentions them just copy-pastes it in.
 
@RedwolfPrograms there are many other examples, too
 
@Wasif probably 3-4 AM normally
 
Yay, I just posted my tenth trivial Factor answer (sorry, Bubbler)
 
4:10 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI will we get bounties for all of them (I have 4 trivial looking answers)
 
@Wasif As far as I know, yeah
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Tomorrow is April 1st, so Factor will no longer be the Language of the month!
 
I'm actually working on a harder challenge, but I don't know if I'll complete it by today, so I wanted to make sure I'd get the bounty if I didn't.
@Wasif Yep, that's why I just posted a trivial answer :P
 
I'd rather get 0 rep for 0 trivial answers than lots of rep for lots of trivial answers
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I will start to "hunt" for trivial questions, when I finish writing a huge answer to the TIO uniqueness question
 
4:12 PM
I wonder what SE will do for April Fools' day
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@rak1507 I applaud your principles, but I'm too greedy to do that :\
 
fair enough
 
@pxeger Maybe the joke will be that there won't be any joke :P
 
Let's wait and see what happens tomorrow
 
Or we could rig the Wayback machine to see the future
 
4:14 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI How about seeing the past, last year April 1
I wish then that page had been indexed
 
I don't know about last year, but the year before that it looked like a website from the 90's
 
I thought that was last year
Wait, I don't think they did an april fools last year
 
@RedwolfPrograms do you have the transcript for Apr 1'19
 
4:23 PM
Oh you are right
 
5:16 PM
I acheived comedy today
today, I reached precisely 69 rep
 
@StackMeter you have 81 rep now
 
@Wasif 81 network rep, 69 rep on CGCC
 
CMQ: Do you have ever repcapped in CGCC? (<10k users) (Excluding bounties)
 
101 times apparently
Only 49 to go :-)
 
@LuisMendo Yes high rep users do it often, so lets limit it to <10k users :P
 
5:25 PM
@Wasif don't think so
 
@Wasif Or you could change the CMQ to "How many times you've repcapped"
 
no one upvotes my posts, insert sad music here
 
@Wasif A couple times, maybe
 
@rak1507 you a get loads of bounties
 
true
 
5:26 PM
@rak1507 Also you have nearly ~30 answers
 
@rak1507 You only have 28 answers, yet a bunch of them have >6 upvotes. That's pretty good.
 
I was kidding lol
 
Give sad music for my questions :-(
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I will listen it tomorrow
 
5:28 PM
@Wasif I would recommend not listening to it at all.
 
you..... again
I bilindly said yes
 
Sorry, I won't do it again for at least a month. Also, I did recommend not listening to it.
 
Dude I have 15 answers and 6 upvotes, have pity on me, with my 2 rep:5 answer ratio
 
@StackMeter my stack overflow ratio is even poorer
 
what is it
 
5:37 PM
@StackMeter My Stack overflow ratio is 2763 upvotes:1467 answers=~1.88
You have 2 rep/per answer, +0.12 from me
 
wow, 1467 answers, jeez
 
how do you check your upvote count
 
@HyperNeutrino stackoverflow.com/reputation
At the top of it
 
mine is 0.4<1, yours is 1.88>1, and afaik, 1>less than 1
 
@Wasif that's 404ing for me
 
5:42 PM
@HyperNeutrino oh sorry no .txt at end
 
@HyperNeutrino how many upvotes you've got
 
642 votes, 178 answers
 
for CGCC?
 
5:43 PM
It will work for all SE sites
 
on CGCC i have 4436 : 608, though I don't know if that count is accurate
 
For SO, my ratio is 1632:254 = ~6.425
For CGCC it's 1284:260 = ~ 4.938 :(
 
for CGCC my ratio is 3587:28 = 128.1
bounties ftw
 
That's pretty amazing
@rak1507 I don't think bounties count?
 
oh
how do I see the rep without bounties
ah, found it
 
155:28 = ~ 5.53 for CGCC
that seems too high, idk why that is
 
HyperNeutrino and Wasif, how do you have so many answers?
 
@rak1507 there is no way you have a 128.1:1 rep:answer ratio
that's insane
 
that's including bounties
 
I feel like we've done this ratio in a CMQ before
 
5:53 PM
yes
 
Can't find it, though
 
6:36 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI been around for a while, and writing up a jelly answer to a fairly straightforward/easy/trivial challenge takes me max like 2 minutes lol
 
6:46 PM
@HyperNeutrino Oh right, looks like you've been here for nearly 4 years
Guess I'll probably have those many answers myself if I stick around that long
 
It looks like that from my profile, but if you check my answers tab, my first answer was around 5 and a half years ago.
 
@HyperNeutrino How?
Black magic or a bug?
 
neither lol
Long story short, a CM thought I was under 13 years old and deleted my account (I was a week off of turning 15 at the time) and so I got my account merged into this account, which carried my content over.
 
Oh
Not to be too nosy, but why did the CM care (or think that)?
 
You aren't allowed to have an SE account if you're under 13
 
6:50 PM
don't worry
my age is strictly > 13
 
I created my SO account when I was 12
which is against TOS
but the thing is since my account wasn't deleted before I turned 13, it shouldn't have been deleted at that point since I was over 13 already by then
 
When I was twelve, I was still playing with Scratch :)
Ok, so ig the mods did black magic to move your old account's answers to the new one
 
I started doing JS first when I was like around 10-11 or so lmao
yeah, technically I guess it would be counted as black magic :P
I think account merging is a built-in feature at least for CMs in case someone accidentally creates a new account forgetting they had one and the CMs want to merge them together
 
6:53 PM
If I remember correctly, the first username for this account was NeutrinoBot cuz it was an account I created to make a chat bot
 
uh wdym
 
Which flavor was the bot?
 
never heard anyone talk about bots by flavors before; either way, it was a bot that let you run/eval python code within SE chat
 
nvm it was a dumb joke
 
7:01 PM
ah shit I just got it
lmao
 
Wait, how was that starred? I'm the only user here who could have starred it
 
how so?
 
Oh ok you're here too
 
there are a lot of users here
 
7:03 PM
I'm also here
 
@RedwolfPrograms You and StackMeter had faded pfps
 
that just means they haven't sent a message in a while
 
@pxeger Your picture wasn't there before
Oh
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI huh, strange, it was for me
at least IIRC; it stands out tho so I think i remember it being there
 
@HyperNeutrino I don't get it
 
7:07 PM
Neutrinos have flavors
 
No vanilla flavor, unfortunately :(
 
I like muon, although cookie dough is a close second
 
Clearly, we should rename to tau particles to vanilla particles
@RedwolfPrograms Hmm, "cookie dough neutrino" does have a nice ring to it :P
 
Wait, neutrinos oscillate between flavors
 
7:15 PM
So if we catch it in between the transistions we can make exciting new flavors, like mint chocolate electron
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Imagine how cool it would be if your ice cream did that
 
Importantly, you can never know too much about your ice cream's flavor if you know where it is or how fast it's going
 
The Redwolf Uncertainty Principle
(btw I think it's momentum or speed+direction, not just how fast it's going)
 
Yeah, probably.
 
So you'd kinda be gambling on whether or not the ice cream would taste good if you knew where it was
Will it be a glorious mixture of vanilla, pistachios, and chocolate? Or will it be a mixture of broccoli and bacon?
 
7:21 PM
(That actually would be good if it wasn't ice cream)
 
Broccoli + bacon - broccoli = bacon = awesome, but broccoli + bacon = barely bearable
Aaaand we're back to food
 
I dunno, I think the bacon would make the broccoli better, not the broccoli makes the bacon worse
Bacon has the stronger flavor
 
i feel like those textures wouldn't mix well
 
Depends how you cook the brocoli
 
no matter how you cook either ingredient
 
7:23 PM
broccoli and bacon don't feel like they'd go well either by flavor or texture
 
Yeah, but you'll still taste the broccoli
 
they're both good on their own
 
if you boil the shit out of the broccoli the flavors could mix okayish
 
If you cook the broccoli a lot, it might be okay
@UnrelatedString ^
 
but it would be strictly worse than a lot of other possible combinations
 
7:23 PM
true
 
@HyperNeutrino Broccoli? No
Hi there @user806777! Welcome to TNB!
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Boil it? No.
 
@RedwolfPrograms No, as in it would be worse than okay, or no as in it would be better than okay?
 
No as in why would you boil broccoli
When you can steam it
 
idk what you do with it
 
7:28 PM
oh yeah you do steam broccoli
 
I just meant the operation that leaves it shrunken and weak and soggy
 
i always forget you can steam things
 
If it's weak and soggy it's overcooked
Or microwaved
 
That's the way I prefer it
 
but i feel like you would still boil it to make it work with bacon lmao
 
7:28 PM
Burning it to ashes would be better
Jul 16 '19 at 22:21, by Adám
Adam sacrificed one of the unicorns, preventing its procreation, and thus causing its extinction.
^ Just found this. What has Adám done?
 
I swear I miss the craziest discussions all the time
 
because weak and soggy broccoli is... it's bad, but the things that make broccoli good are the things that make it clash with bacon
 
@StackMeter Start your own crazy discussion! :P
@UnrelatedString What makes broccoli good?
 
tbf broccoli and bacon probably would be completely awful, but anything sounds good when you're eating school lunch (which I was) :p
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI the flavor and texture
which it ceases to have after enough boiling and/or steaming
 
7:31 PM
They (the texture and flavor) both are disgusting to me
 
@RedwolfPrograms yeah understandable
have you ever had broccoli with like
some garlic and salt
cooked
 
because not liking raw broccoli i understand
 
I've had it dumped in pasta, though
 
7:31 PM
It was good pasta, ruined by broccoli :(
 
that just sounds like bad broccoli
 
Broccoli in pasta sounds kinda bad
 
apparently people eat broccoli raw with some weird sauce that makes it not taste like broccoli anymore?
or at least i've seen that before
 
I need that sauce bad
 
There definitely are some vegetables that taste good with bacon, though
 
7:33 PM
it's not bad but it's not broccoli anymore it's just like sauce plus some weird textural component
 
French fries Potatoes
@HyperNeutrino I'll take it.
 
@RedwolfPrograms cabbage all the way
 
TIL I hate most vegetables people like.
 
what vegetables do you like
 
You can cook broccoli in a pan it seems
 
7:34 PM
Potatoes
 
potatoes are nice
 
Tomatoes when you turn them into ketchup
 
how else would you cook broccoli
 
If you added pieces of bacon to broccoli in a pan I bet that'd be good
 
@RedwolfPrograms that's how i usually have it and it's pretty good (depending on if my mom or dad made it xD)
 
7:35 PM
ketchup is the second worst thing you can do to tomatoes
 
Okra/Lady fingers
 
i'd probably cook them the same way just cuz it's now i learned it from them
 
@UnrelatedString ?
 
peas are the best vegetable
 
the first worst thing being harvesting them slightly underripe then serving them raw
underripe tomatoes are so, so bad
 
7:35 PM
I hate raw tomatoes
 
i thought i hated raw tomatoes until i had them actually ripe
 
I've eaten tomatoes like one would an apple before
 
I should try that, then
 
they're good but I can imagine if they're not ripe they'd taste terrible
 
7:36 PM
@HyperNeutrino I know someone who eats oranges like apples (with the peel). Weirdest stuff I've seen.
 
the flavor and texture are both jsut awful
 
> with the peel
 
lmao wtf
one of my friends eats oranges like apples but at least he removes the peel first lol
 
i have not eaten raw orange with the peel but i have sliced an unpeeled orange into a pot of chili and then eaten it
 
7:37 PM
Yeah he claims it tastes good
 
orange peel is okay depending on how you cook it, i guess
 
@UnrelatedString I mean, that would probably have been okay like that
Not sure how you can eat peels raw
Are cucumbers vegetables? Those are good too
 
i mean it's basically just citrus zest which people do use, and then plus a bunch of the pith or whatever it was called which is just kinda flavorless and weird
 
I don't think I like any other vegetables, though.
 
7:39 PM
cucumbers (and tomatoes) are technically fruit but i think the discussion about what counts as a fruit or vegetable should be based on how they're eaten, not biologically
granted, some ingredients are used in both contexts
 
Yeah, we need to fight for cucumber and tomato rights!
 
peppers too I think
 
i feel like tomato culinarily is somewhere between fruit and vegetable, but cucumber is all the way on the vegetable side
 
(anything with seeds, is how I remember the definition, but IDK if that's correct, I suck at biology)
 
Okay, so here all the vegetables I like: potatoes and okra
 
7:40 PM
that's a rather short list
 
Yeah
This is why I can't become vegetarian
 
okra is something i try to enjoy and just can't
 
And there's absolutely no way I can become vegan.
 
maybe i've just never had it done well
 
@UnrelatedString Have you tried it stuffed with stuff?
idk what my mom puts in it but it tastes good that way
 
7:41 PM
isn't okra tiny
what can you even stuff it with
 
It's about the size of a finger
 
Slice it lengthwise and stuff it with...stuff
 
ahh, so not like hollowing it out into a tube
 
Like spices and stuff
Yeah, it'll stay open and maybe spill a little
 
7:43 PM
yeah that actually sounds good
tbf fried okra also sounds good on paper
 
fruits: peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, peanuts, peas, beans, courgette (zucchini), aubergine (eggplant), chillis, squash, pumpkin, olive, vanilla
 
@UnrelatedString It is pretty good
Mangoes and strawberries are also great, but you often get ones that taste weird.
 
I completely forgot how to do rational functions, I probably just failed a test :|
 
oof :|
what's everyone's opinion on chestnuts
 
f
haven't had chestnuts in ages but recall liking them
 
7:46 PM
i used to really love chestnuts but for the past few months everytime we had them they always had a really weird flavor and texture and i'd usually end up throwing them out cuz they honestly tasted like they'd gone bad so i wasn't sure if i should eat them
 
in Ash, 3 hours ago, by Redwolf Programs
Gotta take a history test now so I'll be offline for an hour or so
 
I have a lot of tests today
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI You have rational functions in history? :P
 
Or maybe I'm just in the wrong class
 
That sucks
Cashew nuts are the best
 
7:47 PM
^
 
I forgot how to do matrix multiplication in a matrices test :P didn't go well
 
did you know that cashews come from a fruit?
 
@rak1507 Use APL :P
 
I wish!
 
7:48 PM
@HyperNeutrino Yeah, pretty big fruit for such a small product
 
'find inverse of 4 x 4 matrix' ok ⌹
 
@rak1507 Ooh, that's hard
 
ikr
it's not actually 'hard' it's just tedious
 
Our unit on matrices was really short, I remember nothing :P
 
I don't like matrices in school because it focuses so much on computation rather than theory, and imo maths shouldn't be about number crunching
3
we have computers for that!
 
7:50 PM
Meh, some people think humans will "get dumb" if we don't do mental math and stuff
 
I think we'll get dumb if we do what we're told without knowing why
 
I agree with that too, another reason why I hate school maths
 
Yeah
A lot of subjects are more about memorization than critical thinking skills :(
 
definitely
 
Unfortunately, my History teacher didn't like that argument :P
 
7:52 PM
yeah I think school has too much of a focus on regurgitating memorized algorithms rather than actually understanding things
 
absolutely lol, so many people in my class just couldn't do something if you even like, renamed the variables or something
 
Back in elementary school, English literature was a class where you literally just memorized answers that the teacher would write on the board to write down on a test a couple of weeks or months later.
CMQ: Good anagrams from here?
 
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