Prince Rupert's Drops are glass objects created by dripping molten glass into cold water. While the outside of the drop quickly cools, the inside remains hot for a longer time. When it eventually cools, it shrinks, setting up very large compressive stresses on the surface.
The result is a sort...
Han is a monotypic genus of agnostid trilobite, whose sole member is Han solo. The type specimen of H. solo was found in marine strata of the Arenig to Llanvirn-aged Zitai Formation of Middle Ordovician southern China, and is named after the character in Star Wars.
== Taxonomy ==
This taxon was erected in 2005, based upon fossil material found in beds of lower Zitai Formation exposed in Maocaopu, Reshi, Taoyuan County in north Hunan, China. Fossil material include a cephalon and two pygidia. It was found to belong to family Diplagnostidae, subfamily Pseudagnostinae; it was originally thought to...
If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times one second apart and compares them:
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String str3 = "1927-12-31 23:54:07";
...
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Arrange ranges of numbers in columns
Write a program to print from m to input n with step s, arranging the numbers in either horizontal or vertical columns.
Clarifications
You can use any two values, or kinds of values, for signifying horizontal and vertical columns, specifying these in your ...
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The reason that we don't allow reposts is because the same answers will be copied from the first challenge and the original can still be answered. But what about answer-chaining challenges? Those are inherently different if they were run multiple times. Imagine if the challenge Add a language to ...
2D Maze Minus 1D
The challenge: convert 2D mazes to 1D mazes.
Problem Space
This is a 2D maze:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | | | |A| | B| A B
+ + + + +-+-+ + + + + +-+-+ \ |
| | | | | | | | \ |
+-+-+ +-+-+ + +-+...
