I am an active user of The Nineteenth Byte, and in the course of a day, I tend to use up all my stars. Unlike some users, I actually use them for meaningful (if often funny) conversations.
However, as much as I love stars, there don't seem to be that many in the world any more. Stars just seem t...
CJam, 160 139 13.3 bytes
00000000: 22 cf 97 d9 d1 85 82 89 8d d1 db 8d 80 a8 af b3 a3 b0 ".................
00000012: b7 82 8e 80 bd c3 ca 89 85 d6 89 84 80 b2 c6 c7 d1 7e .................~
00000024: ce d0 cd c5 d0 bf cb cb c3 d0 7e c7 d1 7e c5 d3 c7 ca ..........~..~....
00000036: d2 d7 7e ...
PHP, (159*1.5 + 5) * .1 = 24.4
I'm confused about the order in which to apply the bonus/penalty, so I assumed order as written.
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Or else he will huff and puff and blow your house down!
That was completely irrelevant. This challenge is actually about Huffman coding. The gist of it is the frequency of characters in a given text is utilized to make its representation shorter. In other words, let's say that our alphabet is a ...
I read questions at this community for while and feel they are funny:)
But I really don't know what the questions are playing with, especially the meaning behind the title:(
I have no idea what they are talking about, is there any beginner instruction to join this community?
Challenge
Given a list of numbers, calculate the population standard deviation of the list.
Use the following equation to calculate population standard deviation:
Input
The input will a list of integers in any format (list, string, etc.). Some examples:
56,54,89,87
67,54,86,67
The number...
Lines
Write an interpreter for Lines, an esoteric language which I reckon could be used for some golfs.
Description
Lines is an esoteric language just like /// (Slashes), but has the added command \|, meaning 'Get next character from STDIN'. This makes it more ideal for golfing. Any command th...
