Many electronic devices, specially old ones, will show a blinking 12:00 when the time has not been set. The purpose of this challenge is to recreate this.
Specifically, the task is to display 12:00 and --:-- alternatively in an infinite loop.
The period should be 1 second, divided evenly in two...
Pokemon Type chart (and dual type chart)
I'm always forgetting Pokemon type matchups. This is a challenge to print the pokemon type chart!
Attacking Type
No Fi Fl Po Gr Ro Bu Gh St Fr Wa Gr El...
I know I'm probably on thin ice, but I tried an answer in the print "Hello, World!" challenge.
I consider it to be 5 bytes total, but the user ais523 pointed out that I had to count the entire batch command (the name of the interpretter, the name of the file plus the piping parameter).
I may ve...
"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" is an English sentence used to demonstrate lexical ambiguity and the necessity of punctuation, which serves as a substitute for the intonation, stress, and pauses found in speech. In human information processing research, the sentence has been used to show how readers depend on punctuation to give sentences meaning, especially in the context of scanning across lines of text. The sentence is sometimes presented as a puzzle, where the solver must add the punctuation.
The example refers to two students, James...
Arnold's Cat Map
code-golfgraphical-output
Challenge
Given a colour raster image* with the same with and height, output the image transformed under Arnold's cat map. (*details see below)
Definition
Given the size of the image N we assume that the coordinates of a pixel are given as numbers b...
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A twist of a trivial sequence
code-golf number-theory sequence
Introduction
Consider a sequence of integers f defined as follows:
f(2) = 2
If n is an odd prime, then f(n) = (f(n-1) + f(n+1))/2
If n = p·q is composite, then f(n) = f(p)·f(q)
It's not very hard to see that f(n) = n for ever...
0xUsernames
There's so many people using a messaging service that they're running out of space to store all the usernames! To fix this, they are going to start storing usernames as hexadecimal, where possible.
If a username consists of only the characters 0123456789ABCDEF (case insensitive), ...
Noun: consensus ā(plural consensuses)
- A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
- General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
- Average projected value, as in the finance term consensus forecast.
- consensus m ā(uncountable)
- consensus
Adjective: cÅnsÄnsus m ā(feminine cÅnsÄnsa, neuter cÅnsÄnsum); first/second declension
- (rare) agreed upon
Scope
As I see it, there are five types of invalid answers:
Answers that produce incorrect results.
This is the most common type, and usually an accident.
Answers that produce correct results, but break a rule of the challenge, ignore parts of the spec or violate a loophole.
For example, ans...
