As the title suggests, my task is fairly straightforward: write a program in your language of choice that will print out the first 20 fibonacci numbers with the least unique characters.
For example in Python2:
def fib(n):
a,b = 1,1
for i in range(n-1):
a,b = b,a+b
return a
for i in ra...
Composition notebook pattern popularity-contest
Write code to procedurally generate the splotchy black-and-white marbled pattern on the covers of composition notebooks.
Your code should randomly generate an image with this texture, and then display it or save it to a file. Each trial should p...
The task is simple, post 2 code snippets that perform the same task, where one seems very optimized at first glance, but actually is significantly slower than the other.
Only one rule:
Both snippets must finish with the exact same output (for the same given input, if any).
Here we go again! This is my last flag for now!
I originally wanted to do my national flag but I thought the stars were too hard so I posted Print the British Flag! instead, which itself was inspired by Print the American Flag!. This challenge would be better for 3 September (Australian National...
hmm.. I like to ask questions whose answers are potentially interesting. So questions which say, do something that you can do more easily another way don't fit it :)
I'll have to think about how to make this fit my criterion :)
That counts as free of cost, but it still doesn't count as free software as you don't have the freedom to run it where you want, so that allows you to exclude it if you wish
However, this will exclude quite a few other languages along with it...
@Lembik Windows is included in the cost of the computer - Microsoft gets paid for it. Mathematica is provided free with the Raspbian operating system, which Wolfram does not get paid for
If you have something that will run Raspbian you can run Mathematica, but the only thing I know that will run Raspbian is a Raspberry Pi
oh I see.. you don't have to have a pi for the updates to work for example? When I tried to run mathematica on my pi it gave all sorts of license problems which I had to fix,
@Lembik I've never played with it myself, but I hear it's a special version designed to be hooked into via python. You can write python code that talks to the game and have the game world react instantly. It sounds really cool. :)
In the past few months, we've quite a few Kolomogorov Complexity challenges asking us to output different flags. For this reason, (and as Fatalize suggested), I think we should create a tag especially for flags?
Does anyone agree or oppose to this?
Curved Cube Interstice: Plane/Sphere/Cylinder/Torus
code-golf
Background
Imagine a cube that has had its sharp parts smoothed so that its edges become cylinder sections and its vertices become sphere sections. Its faces remain plane sections.
Where two cubes meet at a face their cylinder sect...
@Lembik I work for an oil+gas company, where the boss did some programming work for people that their gas clients referred him to. I got brought on to help work on stuff because he has little time to work on it. We've finally got the company who asked us to create this program actually using it, so we're waiting for feedback from them so we can make changes.
Also, this is a very temporary job. I'm just here for the summer, since I start second year at university in September :)
And I certainly doubt my boss would be experiencing issues with cutting costs, this side project alone pays a lot (to him), and I work for $2 above minimum wage
Balancing Words
This challenge was posted on the DailyProgrammer subreddit, and I figured it would be a great candidate for a code golf challenge. Determining if a letter balances is based on its distance from the point of balance, and the letter's value. The value of a letter can be determined ...
@Sp3000 Okay, let's say that the semaphore question does not fall under the scope of the flags tag because it only covers *challenges which involve the flag(s) of a country or sovereign state
If the flag tag is for what's currently been proposed, then currently a question about flagging shouldn't have a tag (if we had many of such questions, then "flagging" would be better)
One's a noun, the other a verb. If you wrote a challenge asking to output a "red flag", the it's [flag]. If you need a bot to decide when to throw a "red flag", it's [flagging].
Write a compiler, for any programming language you like, which need not be a serious programming language. To make things simple, it is possible for you to implement the compiler for a minimal subset of a language. But of course you can go as far as you wish. There is no actual scoring involved. ...
I'm new to this, but it looks fun. The following is inspired by a question that came up on SO today.
Given a number of microseconds 0 <= n <= 86400000000 (e.g. 12345678900), output a formatted string hh:mm:ss:000:000, e.g. 03:25:45:678:900.
0 -> '00:00:00:000:000'
12345678900 -> '03:2...
Just realized I should probably mention this what with Martin being gone, I'm at a summer camp-ish thing so I won't be able to be super active for the next ~3 weeks (we still have free time though). You're all excellent at self-moderation, but I just thought I'd let you know.
Composition notebook pattern popularity-contest
Write code to procedurally generate the splotchy black-and-white marbled pattern on the covers of composition notebooks.
Your code should randomly generate an image with this texture, and then display it or save it to a file. Each trial should p...
The task is simple, post 2 code snippets that perform the same task, where one seems very optimized at first glance, but actually is significantly slower than the other.
Only one rule:
Both snippets must finish with the exact same output (for the same given input, if any).
In the past few months, we've quite a few Kolomogorov Complexity challenges asking us to output different flags. For this reason, (and as Fatalize suggested), I think we should create a tag especially for flags?
Does anyone agree or oppose to this?
Curved Cube Interstice: Plane/Sphere/Cylinder/Torus
code-golf
Background
Imagine a cube that has had its sharp parts smoothed so that its edges become cylinder sections and its vertices become sphere sections. Its faces remain plane sections.
Where two cubes meet at a face their cylinder sect...
I'm new to this, but it looks fun. The following is inspired by a question that came up on SO today.
Given a number of microseconds 0 <= n <= 86400000000 (e.g. 12345678900), output a formatted string hh:mm:ss:000:000, e.g. 03:25:45:678:900.
0 -> '00:00:00:000:000'
12345678900 -> '03:2...
