The Nineteenth Byte

8:00 PM

So I guess my squares of squares has already been thoroughly researched as @PeterTaylor found out.. I will still call it TanMath numbers for fun! does anybody have anything to say about my sandboxed post? I have heard that the decsription is unclear... How can we fix that?

Sparr

@TanMath link to post?

TanMath

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Squares of squares Premise One night, I was just contemplating on numbers. I found out about something unique about numbers like 7, 10, 12, 13, and more. They are squares of squares! Meaning, that when squared,are comprised of squares themselves. Examples of such numbers include 7 (49 has 2 and...

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Q: How to count programs in Folders?

Folders is an esoteric programming language without any files at all. Instead, the program is represented by the directory structure instead, so our normal rules for counting the file size of the program won't work here (or all Folders programs would be zero bytes, which is clearly impractical). ...

SuperJedi224

Hello

JimmyJazzx

Howdy!

flawr

8:03 PM

Hello Mr. Jedi.

Or can I call you supper?

Calvin's Hobbies

Why are red Starbucks cups worthy of national news ._.

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JimmyJazzx

Supper?

Beta Decay

Okay people, I'm looking for a Windows version of Elite which doesn't need an emulator

Dennis

@flawr Sort of. He deleted a message of inappropriate content due to repeated name calling. That comes with a 30 minute suspension.

Beta Decay

@Calvin'sHobbies Ikr :P

TanMath

8:06 PM

I guess nobody has anything to say...

quartata

TIL Mathematica uses Rule 30 for generating random integers.

Martin Büttner

@PeterTaylor is there a limit on k?

trichoplax

@TanMath I think Geobits' comment on your sandbox post is very relevant, and the OEIS page that Peter Taylor links to has a similar wording that may help clarify your question wording: "Squares which are a decimal concatenation of two or more squares."

TanMath

@trichoplax ok.. anything else?

Alex A.

@TanMath I do appreciate and accept the apology. Joking isn't always obvious. ;) As Dennis said, I deleted a message containing what I felt to be offensive content, which carries with it a 30-minute suspension. While some playful banter is generally tolerated in The Nineteenth Byte, please avoid name-calling as it can be misconstrued.

trichoplax

8:11 PM

I think it's a good question just not clear yet - once you have the wording that works you'll be more likely to get feedback as more people will be able to understand the question and comment on it. If it takes several readings to make sense of it some people will not have the time to read it over enough times to give feedback.

Anonymous

@Doorknob I think you misunderstood my question... I meant, how do I run it so that it doesn't throw a floating-point exception and die.

Anonymous

@AlexA. Sure thing Mr. Wrong

Anonymous

awaits incoming mute

Alex A.

:P

(See, in this case I know you're kidding)

Beta Decay

Gah, so I have to do my own research?

iancgbell.clara.net/elite/thirty/index.htm

Anonymous

8:19 PM

Chat trolls are able to instinctively identify each other's trolling :P

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Alex A.

@Mego This reminds me of the time on the PPCG Minecraft server I mentioned that I don't like LotR and Calvin kicked me from the server.

@Mego Amen to that!

TanMath

@AlexA. hehehe...

@Mego wait, who is the troll?

Alex A.

Mego and I are both trolls. ;)

But @Geobits is the original chat troll.

Beta Decay

Then it was Optimizer

Geobits

@AlexA. I can't be the original. I studied the works of the classic trolls long before I joined.

Beta Decay

8:23 PM

The original Nineteenth Byte troll

Anonymous

The difference between Alex and I is that I am not always wrong

Rainbolt

Hello, Not Always Wrong. I'm Rainbolt.

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

four is the cosmic number

I want to make that a challenge

Anonymous

@Rainbolt changes name

Beta Decay

@Rainbolt Are you sure you aren't your dad?

Rainbolt

8:26 PM

@BetaDecay Exception: Geneology overflow

trichoplax

@Mego In case you're considering it, you know you can only name change once every 30 days, right?

TimmyD

I'm My Own Grandpa

"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as "I'm My Own Grandpaw") is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, about a man who, through an unlikely (but legal) combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother — that is, tacitly dropping the "step-" modifiers, he becomes his own grandfather. In the 1930s, Latham had a group, the Jesters, on network radio; their specialties were bits of spoken humor and novelty songs. While reading a book of Mark Twain anecdotes, he once found a paragraph in which Twain proved it would be possible...

Beta Decay

@trichoplax Not if you change it on different sites

trichoplax

@BetaDecay So you have different names on different sites?

ಠ_ಠ

@trichoplax Yes.

Geobits

8:28 PM

That workaround did not work for me, despite several attempts. Bigtoes was a thing for 30 days.

Dennis

@ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ

trichoplax

Were you stuck as Bigtoes on all sites for 30 days?

TimmyD

@Dennis ಠ_ಠ-ception

Geobits

Yep

trichoplax

ouch

@ಠ_ಠ why so serious?

Beta Decay

8:29 PM

Beta Decay doesn't have any good anagrams

Dennis

@Geobits You could have asked a mod to change it.

Beta Decay

That makes Beta Decay sad

flawr

@BetaDecay I take that as a challenge=)

Geobits

@Dennis It wasn't that big a deal, tbh. It's not like it was offensive or anything.

@BetaDecay I'm pretty sure several were posted in chat quite a while ago.

Beta Decay

None that were as good as Bigtoes or Rood bonk though

@flawr Go for it :D

flawr

8:31 PM

Bad Cat Eye?

Geobits

Nothing's as good as Bigtoes.

Anonymous

@trichoplax Yeah I learned from Bigtoes :P

Dennis

I like Bigotes. :)

Geobits

:(

Dennis

translate: bigotes

(from Spanish) whiskers

Geobits

8:33 PM

That sounds like a cat name. Not a fan of cats.

trichoplax

Dogs have whiskers too...

Dennis

Are you a fan of big toes?

Geobits

Yea, but I've never heard of a dog named Whiskers.

flawr

Box plots have whiskers too...

Beta Decay

@flawr Yeah, I came up with Bad Cat Eye

trichoplax

8:35 PM

Eat Cab Dye

TanMath

I edited the questin @trichoplax

Dennis

@BetaDecay Do it! Do it! Do it!

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TimmyD

/sadpanda wordsmith.org/anagram/…

Geobits

@BetaDecay Be a cad yet? Not great, but descriptive enough :P

Alex A.

@Dennis Seriously???

Beta Decay

8:37 PM

@Dennis Alright then :D

Alex A.

@BetaDecay o no cat cannot see

anOKsquirrel

words words words

Alex A.

@anOKsquirrel uh what

Doorknob

@Mego read the README?

Beta Decay

The deed is done

Alex A.

8:38 PM

@Doorknob People actually read those?

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. my hands, words

SuperJedi224

words sword dowrs

Bad Cat Eye

Meeeow

Alex A.

@BadCatEye Refreshed ur profilee

Anonymous

@Doorknob Where might I find this mystical README?

Anonymous

8:39 PM

Doorknob

git pull

Anonymous

Oh, you added one after I cloned it last night

Dennis

@BadCatEye

Alex A.

.gitignore -> README

Bad Cat Eye

@Dennis That is I

flawr

8:39 PM

I found a new avatar

for you

anOKsquirrel

hey, 100 100+ works in my lang now!

Alex A.

commit message: Nobody reads the readme anyway

flawr

anOKsquirrel

very simple, I know

Doorknob

@BadCatEye Expected more? Epected more?!?! I could spend hours simply explaining to you how to win the game. :P

anOKsquirrel

8:39 PM

@flawr nice cat

I don't have a cat D:

Geobits

anOKsquirrel -> Square or Link

Bad Cat Eye

@Doorknob It's not a victory if you're the only player

trichoplax

@TanMath Looking better. I'd be inclined to remove the long output in the examples and just display the output number as you want it to appear - it's easier to pick up the meaning that way which might result in more answers.

TanMath

@trichoplax oh. remove the "The nth TanMath number is" stuff?

anOKsquirrel

@Geobits what?

Bad Cat Eye

8:41 PM

@flawr No. Just no.

Alex A.

@anOKsquirrel I think that's an anagram of your username

trichoplax

@TanMath It's up to you. I think it would be clearer that way, yes.

Doorknob

@BadCatEye last I checked there were over 3 million games on nethack.alt.org alone

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. eyyyy cool

Doorknob

wait a second who am I replying to

TanMath

8:41 PM

@trichoplax ok...

Anonymous

@Doorknob That's another one of Alex's socks

Alex A.

@Doorknob Formerly Beta Decay :P

TanMath

@Doorknob he changed his name!

Doorknob

oh you changed your name as I was typing my first message O_o

Alex A.

@Mego Apparently I have a whole drawer full. :P

TanMath

8:42 PM

@AlexA. we need to add this to the list of memes!

SuperJedi224

@AlexA. :P

Bad Cat Eye

Non, je m'appelle Bad Cat Eye

anOKsquirrel

Loaner Quirks, etc etc etc

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

C'est faux...

anOKsquirrel

709 anagrams, ahhhh

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Alex A.

8:43 PM

@TanMath Actually anagram usernames is already in the meme list :)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Ou pas faux. :P

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax Do you happen to have a better res version of your turvatar?

Anonymous

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A: The Many Memes of PPCG

Meme: A Manager Man's Ruse (anagram usernames) Origin: Bigtoes (Geobits) / Rainbolt Cultural Height: March - August 2015 Background: Geobits changes his username to Bigtoes after Rainbolt points out they are anagrams. Later, Digital Trauma becomes Maria Tidal Tug, only to discover that usernam...

Bad Cat Eye

+1 for turvatar

TanMath

@AlexA. i know.. I am going to edit it!

trichoplax

8:44 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies I have the sudden eerie feeling of being about to be featured in a challenge. I'm sure it'll pass though.

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Anonymous

@BadCatEye You've been added to the anagram list

Bad Cat Eye

It's called the Calvin syndrome

VoteToClose

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Added a Vitsy answer that's actually doing surprisingly well.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^ to what?

Anonymous

carrot.carrot

trichoplax

8:46 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies I don't, but the code to produce it is in my first ever PPCG answer, so I could probably generate one. Do you mean less pixelated, or sharper squares to depict the current level of pixelation?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

"Nor I Once Orb" is the best I can do with my name :P

TanMath

@Mego I was going to do it!

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax Less pixelated

anOKsquirrel

haha look at this wordsmith.org/anagram/…

Anonymous

@TanMath 2slow

trichoplax

8:47 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies It's never existed less pixelated, but I believe the python turtle module can display at variable sizes

Anonymous

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Q: Programmming a Pristine World

Let's define a pristine program as a program that does not have any errors itself but will error if you modify it by removing any contiguous substring of N characters, where 1 <= N < program length. For example, the three character Python 2 program `8` is a pristine program (thanks, Sp) becau...

code-golf restricted-source

Anonymous

I can't answer that one in Seriously :(

Alex A.

Aw, seriously?

Bummer

flawr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Coin or Boner

anOKsquirrel

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Racoon Robin

Anonymous

8:48 PM

There is no such thing as a syntax error in Seriously :(

anOKsquirrel

@Mego seriously? (haha see what I did there lol)

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies Are you looking to display turtle style turtles in general, or that specific colour and angle?

Alex A.

> turtle style turtles

Bad Cat Eye

@flawr Wait, boner?

Alex A.

There are other styles of turtles?

trichoplax

8:49 PM

@AlexA. I'm quite sure you know what I mean :P

flawr

@BadCatEye What is wrong with Boner?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego I like to think that Dennis and Sp are sobbing over their keyboards since they can't find a way to use Cjam

Bad Cat Eye

@flawr In Britain it means something... phallic

TanMath

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ come on! change! I will have the meme edit tab open!

Calvin's Hobbies

^^ And in the US

Bad Cat Eye

8:50 PM

:D

flawr

@BadCatEye Doesn't it mean something phallic everywhere*? (*english speaking places)

Bad Cat Eye

@flawr It does? Oh never mind haha

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax I just like the turtle

Bad Cat Eye

^

Everyone loves the tricho turtle

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Calvin's Hobbies

@flawr It has been used innocently in English literature: tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Stone_Troll

Alex A.

8:52 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies New tattoo?

Calvin's Hobbies

But Troll don't care, and he's still there
With the bone he boned from its owner.
Doner! Boner!

TanMath

@Calvin'sHobbies hey look! more trolls!

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies Probably. I am too

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies I kind of like the pixelation, so I've never tried, but I'll dig Python out and see if it can be scaled

Anonymous

Especially because I can't find enough recent challenges that I can post reasonably Seriously answers on

Alex A.

8:54 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies In older English it meant a mistake. I think that use has since fallen out of favor due to the... other... meaning.

trichoplax

> reasonably Seriously answers

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Calvin's Hobbies

Too many pings :o

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies o sorry

TanMath

@Calvin'sHobbies more pings! :p

@Calvin'sHobbies ping ping!

trichoplax

@BadCatEye Aw thanks :)

TanMath

8:55 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies sorry! ;)

Anonymous

@Doorknob The README is wrong, the output bin file is bin/fractal, not bin/cfractal

Alex A.

@trichoplax It embodies everything we know and love about our good friend trichoplax. <33333

Doorknob

@Mego oh thanks, I'll fix that

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax No biggie. I'm not actually making a turtle challenge.

trichoplax

@AlexA. I read that as "The only thing we know about trichoplax is that turtle" :P

Alex A.

8:57 PM

haha

trichoplax

:)

Sparr

I hate moderator election notifications

Calvin's Hobbies

There's more to know?

Anonymous

^

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies OK I won't try too hard - but I'll see if it's straightforward

Alex A.

8:57 PM

@Sparr Why?

flawr

@Calvin'sHobbies Viable Boss Inch

Sparr

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250148/… <<< so much this

@AlexA. they trick me into thinking I've got a real notification

Doorknob

remind me to ping @Sparr while he's asleep and say nothing

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Calvin's Hobbies

If I was to make a new user tribute challenge I'd ironically probably get the most upvotes if it was about Geobits.

VoteToClose

But why would you ever do that, @Doorknob?

trichoplax

8:59 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies Very true

Sparr

@Doorknob there are already rules about that. do it too many times and you'd get in trouble with the admins

I get election notifications every couple of days

the admins?

site moderators

God

:D

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