Recently I read the novel "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" where the main characters are somewhat compared to twin prime numbers ("always together, but never touching").
A twin prime is a prime number that is either 2 less or 2 more than another prime number —for example, the twin prime pair (...
@PhiNotPi Anecdotal evidence: I'm easily confused, and at the moment also very tired, but it made sense to me with minimal rereading. I haven't proved that my understanding is correct though
Somewhat related, when I was doing research for the question, I was disappointed to find that there are almost no worked-out examples of the math (much less example code). It seems to me that DST is an entirely theoretical concept.
Crash Course on DST
Dempster–Shafer theory (DST) provides a method to combine various sources of evidence to form a belief. Given a list of possible statement (one of which is the true answer), each possible combination of statements is assigned a "mass" indicating the degree of supporting evid...
The Challenge:
Consider the function F(N) = 2^N + 1 where N is a positive integer less than 31. The sequence defined by this function is:
3, 5, 9, 17, 33, 65, 129, 257, 513, 1025, 2049, 4097, 8193, 16385, 32769, 65537, 131073, 262145, 524289, 1048577, 2097153, 4194305, 8388609, 16777217, 335544...
What output do you give for input [3,9,17,33,129]? Either the 3 or the 129 could be correct, depending on which contiguous five you select. — Geobits27 secs ago
People with crappy internet connections or answering from mobile don't always notice the question is on hold though. On the server side, you can still answer it a few minutes/hours after it was put on hold.
If you post a substantial challenge that can't be understood by everyone at first reading, a downvote isn't surprising. Doesn't mean the challenge isn't welcome.
Largest Number Given Digits and Operators
Challenge
Given a list of digits (0-9) and operators (+, -, /, *), output the largest number that can be formed using those digits and operators, as well as the mathematical formula used to create this number.
Rules
All digits and operators must be...
So, after that POTUS debate, what's the opinion of Americans in here? Did they do good? Did they ridicule themselves? Who "won"? (Without starting a chat warfare please)
Prologue
After installing an anti-XSS browser extension, Stack Snippets suddenly stopped working all across the Stack Exchange network. I could no longer learn from Stack Overflow, see working demos on User Experience and, worst of all, could not test JavaScript answers on Programming Puzzles an...
@Fatalize I used to spend all my free time designing fonts, and when I first saw the Vietnamese character set, I thought "Oh. My. Gosh. Do people actually use this?"
@ETHproductions When I press "Run", nothing happens and the XSS-injection preventer pops up with a message saying "Blocked potential XSS injection attempt".
@El'endiaStarman Could you also come here to the local astronomical observatory? They could really use someone preventing the S/N from dropping too low.
Most ridiculous way to sum 1 to n
I long thought about how this challenge could be fun and decided to propose this as a popularity-contest
But I'm not sure if this will gonna be as good as I think.
The task is simple:
Write a program which uses an absolute ridiculous/creative/erroneous way to ...
Recently I read the novel "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" where the main characters are somewhat compared to twin prime numbers ("always together, but never touching").
A twin prime is a prime number that is either 2 less or 2 more than another prime number —for example, the twin prime pair (...
Crash Course on DST
Dempster–Shafer theory (DST) provides a method to combine various sources of evidence to form a belief. Given a list of possible statement (one of which is the true answer), each possible combination of statements is assigned a "mass" indicating the degree of supporting evid...
The Challenge:
Consider the function F(N) = 2^N + 1 where N is a positive integer less than 31. The sequence defined by this function is:
3, 5, 9, 17, 33, 65, 129, 257, 513, 1025, 2049, 4097, 8193, 16385, 32769, 65537, 131073, 262145, 524289, 1048577, 2097153, 4194305, 8388609, 16777217, 335544...
Largest Number Given Digits and Operators
Challenge
Given a list of digits (0-9) and operators (+, -, /, *), output the largest number that can be formed using those digits and operators, as well as the mathematical formula used to create this number.
Rules
All digits and operators must be...
Most ridiculous way to sum 1 to n
I long thought about how this challenge could be fun and decided to propose this as a popularity-contest
But I'm not sure if this will gonna be as good as I think.
The task is simple:
Write a program which uses an absolute ridiculous/creative/erroneous way to ...
