@MartinBüttner It's only two tags. I'll stop now.
[tag:pattern-matching] was used in six, maybe more total places, and meant different things in different places - so to eliminate the confusion I decided to replace it with [tag:regular-expression] where that was suitable and leave people to find a better, less ambiguous name for the other usecases, if one was necessary (something along the lines of [tag:prediction] would have been suitable for Good Vs Evil).
Countdown: Federal Holidays in the United States
Inspired by this question:
Christmas Countdown
Write a program or script that will countdown to the nearest U.S. federal holiday, at any given time, and will switch the display to an appropriate greeting during each holiday.
The following holid...
Generate a Koch Snowflake
A Koch snowflake is a triangle that for each n, another equilateral point is added in the middle of each side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake#Properties
We already had a kolmogrov-complexity Koch Snowflake challenge for n=4. The new challenge is to outpu...
#include<stdio.h>
int main(){int n,m,i,p;scanf("%d %d",&n,&m);for(i=0;i<(n*n);i++){scanf("%d",&p);if(p==m){printf("YES");exit(0);}}printf("NO");exit(0);}
Please help to reduce the size of source code
Currently on my UNIX OS it is 154 bytes
At the end of your interview, the Evil Interviewer tells you, "We make all of our applicants take a short coding test, to see if they really know what they are talking about. Don't worry; it's easy. And if you create a working program, I'll offer you the job immediately." He gestures for you t...
In my popularity contest Approximate a Bell Curve, the answer that I posted has the most votes.
In general on Stack Exchange sites, I avoid accepting my own answer and instead accept another answer that is right (when there are multiple right answers).
On this site, accepting means that the ac...
Unscramble the Source Code
cops-and-robbers
(No introduction yet)
In this game of cops-and-robbers, each cop will write a simple program to give a single output. They will then make public four things about their program:
1) The language
2) The program length
4) The desired output
3) A scram...
