@Sherlock9 Voiced aspirated plosives are very rare. Aspiration devoices the following vowel for a short period of time, so a voiced aspirated plosive would entail voicing while the stop is held, releasing it and devoicing the first part of the vowel, and then voicing the rest.
Why does it seem like every spoken language have normal rules for counting, but then some weird exception for a handful of numbers? Like English has special words for eleven, twelve, and thirteen, and a different syntax for fourteen through nineteen. And I just learned that French apparently has normal rules for 1 through 79, but then when 80 is reached it's counted by twenty (four-score and seventeen would be 97).
@Sherlock9 But we don't say "three-teen" like we do with the others, so it's still a separate rule. And the 'teens are different than the other decimal numbers in that the "10 and" comes after, not before (e.g., "forty-two").
@TimmyD fifteen is not five-teen either, dude. thirteen and fifteen should be excluded on the basis that we know spell three and five differently. They're still -teens
Indonesian goes "satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan, sembilan, sepuluh, sebelas, dua belas, tiga belas, ... sembilan belas, dua puluh, dua puluh satu, dua puluh dua, ... sembilan puluh sembilan, seratus, seratus satu" and so on. Maybe the other languages, Javanese, Sundanese, etc. have weirder systems, but Indonesian is rather simple
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@Sherlock9 eh, firstly, it isn't exactly between two vowels, and secondly, that change vowel+/f/+vowel > vowel+/v/+vowel happened in English a long time ago.
I think linguistics is fascinating, but its interesting how, even though I understand certain concepts (like declension), its still ridiculously difficult for me to actually do
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan you also tend to learn a lot of vocabulary in natural languages, learning an entire language syntax (like every builtin) is a bit similar
its not just memorization either. I learned Czech for a while, and despite the fact that I knew how certain things worked grammatically, its still tough to remember it all and get it all in a fluent sentence
Anyone working on a python solution for this challenge? Can't seem to improve my performance (15 seconds for factorizations of 256) while keeping the program short.
I just discovered that short links like http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/41593/48934 has your user-id at the end and can still function without it...
@Sherlock9 I got it working in 300 bytes but the performance is my problem. I'm generating every possible combination of the factor list and then checking if reduce(mul, ...) is equal to the original number :\
An algebraic curve is a certain "1D subset" of the "2D-plane" that can be described as set of zeros {(x,y) in R^2 : f(x,y)=0 }of a polynomial f. Here we consider the 2D-plane as the real plane R^2 such that we can easily imagine what such a curve could look like, basically a thing you can draw wi...
I'm thinking that I'm going to disallow setting default parameters without using their keyword. Obviously, this would mean more readable code, but would it motivate you from writing functions with default parameters in the first place?
Considering I may direct people to sites I like (my list of comics, for example), there may well be an uptick in traffic should these hypothetical fans come look at PPCG
Another important note is that these plans are still vague. I have the podcast I was going to do with my friends, maybe some gaming stuff, but not many other ideas as yet
So this caution may be unwarranted. I'm not sure yet
CAPTCHAs (Cops and Robbers Style)
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Cops will write a program that generates a CAPTCHA (either through stdin/stdout or on whatever UI is available to your language using only built-ins).
Robbers will attempt to bypass the generated CAPTCHA programmatically, given access to the C...
@Sherlock9 even if you said "Hey here's a cool video I made", it'd take one of us to talk about PPCG in your public community, or some intense googling from a youtube fanboy