@Ampora @FryAmTheEggman @isaacg @ThomasKwa You have all offered bounties for categories that didn't make the top 7. Would you be willing to put in some or all of that rep for categories that did make it instead?
I'd like to think that one of these years, I'll get an award, but I think I'm still too middle-of-the-pack as a golfer. Ah well, puzzles are their own reward often enough.
@MartinBüttner :P that'd be good - I'd write a challenge, but a challenge from a subpar writer like me would be weird for something that's meant to reward a hardworking category :P
@flawr Erm... Write some code to play Wist. When it's golfed down as much as possible and has at least a 97% success rate, come back and show it to us. Then claim a world record.
> Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries.[1][2] Although the rules are extremely simple, there is enormous scope for scientific play.[3]
Is there some way we could do an ordering-style vote for the Best of 2015? Like the way elections get a vote for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. El'endia Starman's starred comment makes me wonder about this.
@MartinBüttner is a generalized version of xorting finding a hash function h(x) such that for any pair of indices i, j in array A with i <= j, h(A[i]) <= h(A[j])?
Hexagonal grids have been become a fairly popular twist for challenges about 2-dimensional data recently. However, it seems that the equally interesting triangular grids have been largely neglected so far. I'd like to rectify that with a rather simple challenge.
First, how do we represent a tria...
Mr. William Shakespeare wrote plays. A lot of plays. I have found a tarball containing every single one of his works. However, each one of his plays is one long file inside it, and I need it split into Scenes for a stage production. Actors are impatient, so your code needs to be as short as possi...
@El'endiaStarman You can get it down to 3n with comments along the lines of "upvote this comment if you wish to vote answer A as 2nd". Ensuring people are honest with votes, on the other hand...
@Sp3000 Or you could clutter the Meta site with a question for each category, and an answer for each submission. They'll all have a particular tag so that they can be cleaned up afterwards.
@NewMainPosts Who likes the Shakespeare Programming Language and wants 500 rep?
@SuperJedi224 I have that on my shelf, but I didn't get around to reading it yet.
Penguin classics published all of his works in three small paperbacks with pretty good annotations. I read the first of those (which didn't have MoM in it), but haven't read the other two yet.
Heavy Integer Crunching
code-golf
Your job is to make a program that allows to add,substract and multiply integers of arbitrary size.
Details
The two integers as well as the operation are given a string. The output should also consist of a string.
Both input and ouptut should be formatted as...
Mr. William Shakespeare wrote plays. A lot of plays. In this tarball containing every single one of his works, each one of his plays is one long file.
It needs to be split into Scenes for a stage production. Because actors are impatient, your code needs to be as short as possible.
Task:
Your ta...
@orlp I might write a script that will make sure you can never click on the cross. And it also renders another cross image over the clickable cross, and just changes your cursor when you hover over it, but it moves out of the way soon enough for you not to notice that it is unclickable. That way, I could make a lot of money.
Mr. William Shakespeare wrote plays. A lot of plays. In this tarball containing every single one of his works, each one of his plays is one long file.
It needs to be split into Scenes for a stage production. Because actors are impatient, your code needs to be as short as possible.
Task:
Your ta...
The split-complex numbers, also known as "perplex numbers" are similar to the complex numbers. Instead of i^2 = -1, however, we have j^2 = 1; j != +/-1. Each number takes the form of z = x + j*y.
In one attempt to limit the complexity of this challenge, I will use the symbol - to represent neg...
Mr. William Shakespeare wrote plays. A lot of plays. In this tarball containing every single one of his works, each one of his plays is one long file.
It needs to be split into Scenes for a stage production. Because actors are impatient, your code needs to be as short as possible.
Task:
Your ta...
Quick question about someone's sandbox post I'm looking at: Would you rather a golf where you just have to generate the truth table entries, or where you also have to format the Boolean expression in the heading to add spaces?
Using built-in functions to do the work
Mathematica is a big one for this, with Fibonacci[n] to calculate the n'th Fibonacci number.... I have no objection to these being posted as a side note within the main answer though - that is interesting and helps me learn different languages capabilitie...
Compressing your source code
Some language provide builtin facilities to compress data and execute the result as source code. I consider this to be a standard loophole, especially when the challenge is counted in characters instead of bytes.
@NathanMerrill Didn't see your post. The use of builtins is not why I am thinking about adding a rule about formatting the heading, I just thought it would be an interesting challange to add to it...
@JAtkin It does, but it is quite an involved explanation. It is equivalent to saying "reverse alphabetical order" or "reverse lexicographic order" so if you wanted to make it really clear you could say one of those plus your break down of the meaning.
@NathanMerrill There are no debates on the main site. We cracked down on those early on. In a few chat rooms, we do have debates, but they're usually civil.
@NathanMerrill Make it CW. Once people are starting to think about it as opposed to just Down goat -voting, delete the question and then repost it as not CW. That way, you get all the lovely rep from the upvotes.