This drought goat out of hand 
AppleScript + SE Answer
Actually picked this up by accident while editing an answer in this question. Go figure.
tell application "System Events"
set layers to (display dialog "" default answer "")'s text returned as number
delay 5
repeat layers times
keystroke ">"
end r...
C
Sample output for depth=4, zoom=2.0
This answer employs an approach quite different from other answers. It generates a tree structure by recursively branching. Each branch is represented by a set of circles. And finally the main function samples the circles and fill with characters when cir...
Let's play Russian Roulette!
Normally, this would be a race to write the shortest MOD 6 program, but that's not very realistic, as the chance of winning decreases with each click. Here are the rules:
Emulate a real six-shooter:
The chance of losing on the first try is 1/6.
The chance of los...
Help, I'm trapped in a Sierpinski triangle!
code-golf fractal graphs path-finding
Drawing the Sierpinski triangle has been done to death. There's other interesting things we can do with it though. If we squint hard enough at the triangle, we can view upside-down triangles as nodes of a fractal ...
The cofactor matrix is the transpose of the Adjugate Matrix. The elements of this matrix are the cofactors of the original matrix.
The cofactor (i.e. the element of the cofactor matrix at row i and column j) is the determinant of the submatrix formed by deleting the ith row and jth column from ...
Python 3, 278 bytes
I should really golf this down better, but here is my solution, with thanks to katenkyo for their help with the logic.
def m(s):
l=len(s);p=[[i,s[i]]for i in range(l)]
for i in range(l):
c=s[i]
if c.isalpha():
a=p[i][0];m=(a+ord(c)%32)%l;p[i][0]=m
for j in range(...
0
This one works, but this one doesn't? underhanded popularity-contest
Meet Greg. Greg is a programmer. He deals with checking programs to see if they work. If they don't, he tries to find why.
Greg is rather new to programming and understands the basics, but still gets tripped up by some advance...
This is an extension of the well known "3 gunmen puzzle":
N gunmen with hitting probabilities in (0,1] take turns to shoot at each other. They repeat this process until only one survives. A gunman's goal is to maximize his surviving probability.
To be specific, consider 10 gunmen with hitti...
A script invoking itself as a form of looping/recursion, where the filename has to be a specific name
e.g. I answered a question with PowerShell which included sleep 1;t where the script had to be called t.ps1 and saved in the PATH, so it would call itself.
I considered it maybe reasonable beca...
== Translingual ==
=== Etymology ===
Created on the same principle as o_O, but using a Unicode character which more closely resembles an eye with an eyebrow (ಠ, the Kannada letter ṭha, whose codepoint is U+0CA0).
=== Symbol ===
ಠ_ಠ
An emoticon representing a look of disapproval.
For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ಠ ಠ....
0
In this code golf, you will have to determine the direction of the shortest shot that hits n cushions before falling into a pocket.
The billiard table is a 6 pocket table(pool) with the following caracteristics:
dimensions are variable (a x b)
no friction : the ball will forever untill falling...
