PPCG Jeopardy
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This is a cops-and-robbers challenge.
The cops need to:
Find a non-deleted, non-closed challenge on this site to answer. The challenge cannot be a cops-and-robbers or popularity-contest. The challenge must have restrictions on...
Can any of you think of any challenges that are loopholes ^
The challenge:
Make a function that finds the longest palindrome inside a string.
Note: This is a code-trolling question. Please do not take the question and/or answers seriously. More information here.
I think the question as above is clear, but just in case:
Write a full program (not just a function) which prints a positive base 10 integer, optionally followed by a single newline.
Qualifying programs will be those whose output is longer (in bytes) than the source code of the program, measure...
@Fatalize true, if you generate a single random number and output it, then the above would be valid.
however, I'll make that explicit in my challenge "If a challenge requires an output of X", and you output "XY" where Y is anything besides trailing spaces, the challenge is not valid
So I'm no expert in coding: I just have a vague understanding of a few bits and bobs.
I understand that images of pixel dimensions X*Y are stored in array of size 3*X*Y where each vector pulled from a given (x,y) value has 3 elements for the 3 RGB values.
I also understand that one can also st...
@Dennis Regarding this answer, I tried the first program and got a different output than what you indicate. Running that output does produce the others (same output with one more repetition). Is there anything special going on in the first step?
@El'endiaStarman Looks like a lot of fun! If for some reason you ever meet with Ubisoft (particularly one of the script writers there, not sure why you would but who knows :P) you can say hi for me ;)
@Shebang This is also true, notice united states is not capitalized
@Sp3000 Yeah, I think that last line was poorly worded. To make up for it, my coworker who asks these each week is doing a bonus one today since literally nobody got it
United States of Mind is an album by Covenant. Covenant is the alien species in the Halo series. Halo is the circle on angels' heads. Circles have no corners. Naughty children are sometimes sent to corners. Letters are also sent places. Letters are in words. Words make up the phrase "United States". Drat I'm back where I started...
@Poke You can't stop there. Once you go full circle, you'll see you have another halo. Twin halos can be used for two children's lack of corners. Then you have two letters, with twice as many words...
Well if you say them all together MatsChewSit, you can see how I got Massachusetts out of it :P I mean, I just couldn't find another state that matched other answers to the first three parts.
I was surprised I didn't get voted for creative answer though, Opportunity (because it knocks) did. At least the syllables in mine matched most of questions, Opportunity only answers the first one >.>
@Geobits With twice as many words you could fill a book. Books have pages that are sometimes referred to as leaves. Leaves use photosynthesis for food and oxygen thus satiating their basic needs. What else needs food and oxygen? Aerobic bacteria. Bacteria can make people sick which is generally unwelcome. On the other hand mats are usually used outside the front door for welcoming. Mats->Mass->Bass->Base->Baseball. Baseball is a sport. The answer is a Toaster.
@Sp3000 Haha no it's okay, and most of the riddles have been pretty good besides this one. A bit too easy lately, so maybe that's why she went for this one this time.
As a Canadian everything is metric but I still weigh myself in lbs and measure my height in feet and inches, I guess I assumed other metric countries were like that
two, actually. Both were related to maps. I have a Range object (which defines the distance you can go on the map, as well as if its cardinal or not), and I had a function which grabbed all points within a Range of a single point. I used a static cache (as that will never change from game to game)
@Geobits It's not so much that, it's more getting a conversion result from Google and going "Oh, is that what I am? I'm going to assume you're correct because frankly I have no idea"
Given only a straightedge and compass, inscribe a rhombus inside the given rectangle, sharing two opposite points.
Input
Input is the dimensions of the rectangle. In the example shown, that would be 125, 50. You can take input in whatever way is most convenient (as two integers, list, strings...
Challenge idea: Given two circles, find out whether it is possible to draw a triangle inside the first circle such that the second circle is inside the triangle.
has there been any challenge such as writing a program which outputs its own length, without simply printing a number (obviously comments are not allowed as well)?
A hilbert curve is a type of space-filling curve, and it basically maps a line to a plane. Each point in the line corresponds to just one point in the plane, and each point in the plane corresponds to just one point on the line.
Shown are iterations 0 through 4 of the Hilbert Curve:
Your task ...
anybody know of a good way to distribute a jar file? I need to be able to automate the uploading, and I want to replace the existing jar file with the latest uploaded one.
here's the solution: users must write a program that prints out the length of the string passed to it. If nothing (or an empty string) is passed in, then it must call itself with its source code
For today's fractal challenge, draw at least 5 iterations of Sierpinski's triangle! (Shown below is Sierpinski's trinagle)
The resolution of the image must be sufficent that the smallest triangles are at least one pixel in size, and all triangles should be approximately equillateral - pixel ar...
80x86 Code / MsDos - 10 Bytes
As a sizecoder specialized for very tiny intros on MsDos i managed to come up with a program that occupies only 10 bytes.
in hex:
04 13 CD 10 20 E9 B4 0C E2 F6
in asm:
X: add al,0x13
int 0x10
and cl,ch
mov ah,0x0C
loop X
The first version i coded was "Colpi...
PPCG Jeopardy
How well do you know the site? Let's find out.
This is a cops-and-robbers challenge.
The cops need to:
Find a non-deleted, non-closed challenge on this site to answer. The challenge cannot be a cops-and-robbers or popularity-contest. The challenge must have restrictions on...
The challenge:
Make a function that finds the longest palindrome inside a string.
Note: This is a code-trolling question. Please do not take the question and/or answers seriously. More information here.
Given only a straightedge and compass, inscribe a rhombus inside the given rectangle, sharing two opposite points.
Input
Input is the dimensions of the rectangle. In the example shown, that would be 125, 50. You can take input in whatever way is most convenient (as two integers, list, strings...
A hilbert curve is a type of space-filling curve, and it basically maps a line to a plane. Each point in the line corresponds to just one point in the plane, and each point in the plane corresponds to just one point on the line.
Shown are iterations 0 through 4 of the Hilbert Curve:
Your task ...
80x86 Code / MsDos - 10 Bytes
As a sizecoder specialized for very tiny intros on MsDos i managed to come up with a program that occupies only 10 bytes.
in hex:
04 13 CD 10 20 E9 B4 0C E2 F6
in asm:
X: add al,0x13
int 0x10
and cl,ch
mov ah,0x0C
loop X
The first version i coded was "Colpi...
