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Neil
Neil
01:10
CMC: Is it a statistical win? Given x partial votes for candidate X and y partial votes for candidate Y, calculate whether (x+y)(x-y)(x-y)>16xy (you may use >= instead).
(and yes, the formula produces silly answers for low values of x+y)
Bbrk24
Bbrk24
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interesting graph
@Neil I think it produces weirder results for large x+y, since the window for a toss-up is relatively narrower
if you go out to even just tens of thousands
 
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Neil
Neil
05:31
@Bbrk24 yeah that's how statistics works, if you have 100 trials of an 80% biased coin then you would expect 80 heads give or take 8 but if you have 10000 trials yo would expect 8000 give or take 80
 
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emanresu A
emanresu A
07:56
Iā€™m voting to close this question because test — sphennings 4 hours ago
:thinking:
that is certainly one way to do things
lyxal
lyxal
Requires a little context
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:p
emanresu A
emanresu A
yeah, just uh... sure :p
 
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mousetail 'he-him'
mousetail 'he-him'
13:18
@emanresuA Can you try the submission on YQ again that caused JSON parse error last time? It should be fixed
 
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Unrelated String
Unrelated String
14:41
@rydwolf Oh, so you're at least not doing it ON the gravel
 
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noodle person
noodle person
16:21
@Neil J, 12: (16**)<+*-*-
Uiua, 12: <÷16××.āŠƒāŠƒ-+×
Actually the J could probably be shorter
att
att
move the 16* to the right of < as 16%~
noodle person
noodle person
@att That was my exact idea lol, it's what I did in Uiua
but I actually can't tell if either solution is correct
Neil didn't give any test cases lol
I think my Uiua has a bug somewhere. Oh well
att
att
the j lgtm
 
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Sandbox Posts
Sandbox Posts
17:35
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Larry Bagel[code-golf] Maximize the array Given an array of nonnegative numbers and a positive integer k, what is the largest number you can have in the array after k operations? There are two types of operations you can perform: Choose the first number and replace it with the smallest positive integer not...

mousetail 'he-him'
mousetail 'he-him'
@SandboxPosts Is it ever beneficial to use more than two operators?
Or even more than one?
I guess if there are duplicates it matters
Sorting seems always bad though
att
att
it's a throwaway i guess?
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
I guess?
So it's really just... if you're obligated to perform EXACTLY k operations, then does doing the only real operation k times or k-1 times work better
mousetail 'he-him'
mousetail 'he-him'
17:52
You'd want to sort as late as possible always I think
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
Ohhh, you're right, it is the FIRST number
mousetail 'he-him'
mousetail 'he-him'
Sorting would make the first number the highest number
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
Yeahhhh
So there's no possible time you'd want to do it before the very end, unless the input is all ones or something and it just doesn't matter at all
...or wait
Yeah no it doesn't matter
mousetail 'he-him'
mousetail 'he-him'
Even if the input is all ones, it doesn't matter
Unrelated String
Unrelated String
that is so ??????
yeah lmao
emanresu A
emanresu A
18:06
@mousetail'he-him' yeah it's fine now, I think it's just an issue with the length overflowing
Ginger
Ginger
18:44
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ayyyyyyy
three years!
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att
att
19:40
oh no im old
grats
 
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noodle person
noodle person
21:01
@Ginger congrats!
Crap that means I'm like a month away from 3 lol

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