Note: this is the harder version of this challenge.
Your Challenge
You must write a program/function etc. that takes a domain name of a StackExchange site and outputs the domain for the meta version of the site passed to it. Examples (using => to distinguish input and output):
stackoverflow.com =
It is common to start countdowns 100 days prior to an event, probably because of our base 10 system. Examples of this can be found everywhere:
100 days until your birthday
100 days until the wedding
100 days until the election
100 days until our graduation
100 days until her due date
100 days u...
Find the Least Conforming Word
Given a list of words, find which word follows Zipf's Law the least.
For each distinct word w in this list, we know the following two properties of w in this list:
Its frequency in the list (that is, the number of occurrences of it divided by the number of eleme...
What general tips do you have for creating a bot to participate in a King of the Hill challenge? What strategies do you use to go from considering the challenge to creating your bot? What data structures do you find most useful?
Please post one tip per answer.
Purpose
The idea is to provide the code necessary to map a 32-bit integer to/from a pronouncable word of 9 characters maximum. That could be useful, for example, to make a serial number easier to remember, or type in a form.
Both the method for translating an integer to the corresponding word a...
In Java:
TVset Sony=new TVset ();
TVset Samsung=new Samsung ();
What is the difference? Constructor difference? The book I'm reading doesn't specify.
There are clever ways of determining whether an integer is an exact power of 2. That's no longer an interesting problem, so let's determine whether a given integer is an exact power of -2. For example:
-2 => yes: (-2)¹
-1 => no
0 => no
1 => yes: (-2)⁰
2 => no
3 => no
4 => yes: (-2)²
Rules
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This challenge, while probably trivial in most "standard" languages, is addressed to those languages which are so esoteric, low-level, and/or difficult to use that are very rarely seen on this site. It should provide an interesting problem to solve, so this is your occasion to try that weird lang...
Say we have two (ASCII) text files s.txt and t.txt, s contains a list of swear words separated by a new line and t contains text we want to clean up. Create a program which can search t for words listed in s and replace each character of the word with a *
Note, swear words only count if they are...
I was just playing the board game Sorry! with some people, and I realized that I could base a few interesting challenges off of it. This one is pretty simple.
You task is simply to output an ascii-art version of a sorry board, placing pieces where I tell you to.
Specs
First, here is an image o...
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...
