A bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty displays the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, part of which reads: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-t...

Taken (with permission) from Sandbox for Proposed Challenges Basic Markdown Parser Write a script or function that parses Markdown. These rules must be parsed: `foo` ⇒ <code>foo</code> *foo* ⇒ <em>foo</em> **foo** ⇒ <strong>foo</strong> ***foo*** ⇒ <strong><em>foo</em></strong> _foo_ ⇒ <em>...

This answer to the Output your programming language name challenge is invalid: it doesn't actually produce output, and arguably isn't even a program (at least, not in the language it claims to be written in). Normally, this would be dealt with by downvoting the answer into oblivion. However, th...

You are providing tech support to the Bruce Dickenson as he produces a Blue Öyster Cult recording session. When he asks for more cowbell, you can give it to him. Your task Write a program or function that takes a string (or equivalent in your language) as input, and outputs a related string con...

USA You Have Been Trumped! Your task is to produce a full program or function that outputs this exact ascii-art text. No input required. /$$ /$$ /$$$$$$ /$$$$$$ /$$ /$$ /$$$$$$ /$$ /$$ | $$ | $$ /$$__ $$ /$$__ $$ | $$ /$$/ /$$__ $$| $$ | $$ ...

Write a program or function that given an integer radius r returns the number of unit squares the circle with radius r centered at the origin passes through. If the circle passes exactly through a point on the grid that does not count as passing through the adjacent unit squares. Here's an illus...

Many of you may have interacted with people from Russia on the internet at some point, and a subset of you may have noticed the slightly odd method they have of expressing themselves. e.g. деинсталляция игра нуб))) - (forgive the google translate) where the ))) are added for emphasis on the pre...

Sum One Ad Infinitum Background We all know that 1+1+1+1+... is infinite and should not converge. However, according to mathematics, this sum should be equal to -1/2. Therefore, since we trust these mathematicians, we are going to make a program that agrees with their conclusion. Tasks Crea...

Your task is to calculate an exponent (x to the power of y) without basic arithmetic (adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, modulo, and (obviously) exponents). The Rules You may not use any of the following symbols: + (addition) - (subtraction) * (multiplication) / (division) ** (e...

So, I'm kind of an esolang loony so let me propose the following contest. First of all, the assumption is that every algorithms that save the same problems are equally fast. Also, let's think in "special case" terms. Sorting is the problem of well... sorting a list. However, an algorithm that gen...

Given an input string S, return truthy if all the letters in S are Lexically Ordered: their ASCII values need to be in either ascending or descending order. Return falsy in other cases. Input Input will be in the same case (all upper- or all lowercase). Your submission should be able to handle...

Labyrinth Game KOTH This is inspired by the Labyrinth game from Usogui Rules Starting with a blank 8 by 8 grid, your bot will add a starting point, end point and walls. This should form a maze with a valid path from start to finish. Your bot will then compete in groups of 4 in order to try...

This is a fairly simple challenge. Given a lower-case word, you must "interpolate" between letters. Here's some examples to hopefully clarify this: Input: test Output: tsrqponmlkjihefghijklmnopqrst Between letters you must add, in alphabetical order, the letters between those two letters. So if...

This is a bad one probably. You have to submit answers to other challenges, that would work, but would crash on some cases and/or leave an Easter egg. Point counting: +1 for every upvote. +50 if the answer is selected as the best.No edits. I hope it's good enough?

Base Conversion The task is simple, without using any built-in functions supporting base-conversion, convert any given number from base a to base b. In other words, use division and modulus to implement base conversion from a to b in any language. Bases supported should be from 2-62 with charact...

I'm given a two-dimensional array of integers and I need to check if it contains a rectangle that has the same corners as the array corners. for example: 3 4 3 5 -9 0 4 4 -8 6 1 1 3 -9 6 4 3 -2 5 6 In this array we have a 2X3 rectangle that starts in [0,2]. (the cor...