The Nineteenth Byte

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19:10

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In graph theory, a Cactus is a simply connected graph such that any two simple cycles in the graph share at most one vertex. Task Take a simple graph as input and decide whether it is a Cactus graph. You should output two distinct values one for True and one for False. This is code-golf so yo...

Downgoat

@EriktheOutgolfer 0110011000110011 is f3?

Phoenix

@TuxCopter I wish I could downvote in chat

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Erik the Outgolfer

@Downgoat I just ~~typed that stuff randomly~~ watched the whole video in really fast speed and that part was so hilarious...

Bald Bantha

@Phoenix My first experience with vim as well

Anonymous

→ 7 messages moved to VSL

Anonymous

19:19

@Downgoat Done

Anonymous

19:37

I finally finished porting CodePageKeyboard over to pure JS instead of Brython, so it's a lot faster and more stable!

Fatalize

@Mego Great!

Downgoat

@Mego :D <insert comment about JS superiority over python :P>

Anonymous

@Downgoat Python is better obviously, but it doesn't work for client-side browser scripting (yet)

Anonymous

When in Rome...

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun found the relevant meta post for yesterday's discussion: codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7206/8478 so the answers (the Axiom one and my CJam edit) weren't valid

Anonymous

19:47

@MartinEnder I'd argue that this is the stronger consensus: posted later, with +16/-3 versus +20/-7, and no edits that contradict the original statements made by the post

Martin Ender

doesn't seem relevant to the case at hand

the question is whether + is a valid submission for "add 2 numbers" in a language which has this built-in operator but where stand-alone operators aren't expressions

Anonymous

Oh, I misunderstood. Yeah, that's not acceptable.

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20:27

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Q: How to find the sum of series 1 + n + n*(n+1)/(2!) + n*(n+1)*(n+2)/(3!) + ...... + n*(n+1)*(n+2)...*(n+k)/((k+1)!)?

Since the value of n and k can be large as 10^18, i'm stuck on how to code to find the series sum. C/C++/Python will overflow. I thought of using log10 in python but it is not giving the correct answer because of anti-log i guess.can anyone help me on how to approach this question. Sorry for a...

code-challenge number-theory

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20:48

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Q: Calculate the binary split sum of a word

Take a string, s containing printable ASCII-characters as input, and output its "binary split sum". Need an explanation? How do you get the binary split sum? We'll use the string A4 as an example in the following explanation. Convert the characters to binary, treating each letters as a 7-bit ...

code-golf string base-conversion binary

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Q: Solve as many challenges as possible in 200 bytes

Write programs and/or functions to solve as many PPCG challenges as you, where the sum bytecount of all your programs is less than or equal to 200 bytes. You may only use one programming language throughout all of your programs Each individual program must be a valid, working submission for i...

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Mistah Figgins

21:00

wow, it's 55 to 1 red vs blue stars :/

56*

I starred another one

Bald Bantha

What do you mean?

Mistah Figgins

github.com/TehFlaminTaco/TacosUserscripts/blob/master/…

There are "blue" or "red" teams that were divided up by a couple of challenges, and ATaco made a userscript that tracks stars based on team

It's not really relevant, and you can completely ignore it if you want

he also has some really useful ones, and Downgoat has a PPCG auto-graduation script too.

Bald Bantha

What to you all think of this?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Similar to this: https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9917/47019 Esolang Interpreters, Version 2 Use a language on this list to write an interpreter for another language on the list. Then use that second language to write another interpreter, and so on. Ex: JSfuck interpreter for BF, the...

@MistahFiggins I've used that. Does anyone know when the real redesign is going to happen, if ever?

xnor

21:20

@flawr When you say "any of them are acceptable", which of my 2 comments is that answering?

or both?

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Q: Esolang Intepreters

Esolang Interpreters Using a programming language from this version of this list, write an interpreter for the next language on the list. For example, if you choose to start with LOCK, you would write an interpreter for LOLCODE. Continue this pattern (use LOLCODE to write an LCBF interpreter, e...

code-challenge interpreter

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Similar to this: https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9917/47019 Esolang Interpreters, Version 2 Use a language on this list to write an interpreter for another language on the list. Then use that second language to write another interpreter, and so on. Ex: JSfuck interpreter for BF, the...

Bald Bantha

I decided that I wasn't patient enough to wait for feedback in sandbox ^

ATaco

21:38

I never got around to doing my RProgN esolang write up 😢

user165474

@BaldBantha Please delete your sandbox post then.

totallyhuman

:imp:

user165474

CMC: Let there be a finite number of red and blue points with the same number of red points as of blue points. Prove that there is guaranteed to be a way to connect each red point with a blue point such that no connecting line segments cross. You may assume that no three points are colinear.

xnor

this is a beautiful classic problem

user165474

Yes. I heard it yesterday and it took me a bit of time and more hints than I'd care to admit but its proof is very nice.

betseg

21:43

ummm

user165474

Er...

user165474

Um... Google's going crazy again?

user165474

Another interesting problem: Let there be finitely many points on a cartesian grid. Prove that if the area of the largest triangle formed by connecting any three points is at most 1, then there exists a triangle of area at most 4 which contains all of the points.

betseg

@NewMainPosts feels like a dupe but cant find it...

user165474

There is a similar sandbox post here

betseg

21:47

and the same user. the one i saw could be that one

user165474

Yeah. I don't know why the user posted two nearly identical sandbox posts; just editing would be better to avoid clutter.

Bald Bantha

@HyperNeutrino Because I wanted feedback specific to the edit. Also, please tag me when talking about me

user165474

Hm. Fair point. And alright, I'll keep that in mind.

user165474

@BaldBantha Now that you've posted this as an actual question now, would you mind deleting it to reduce clutter? Thanks.

Bald Bantha

Done.

user165474

21:54

:thumbs-up: thanks! :)

feersum

In this Befunge interpreter, printing N characters is O(N^2)...

ais523

@feersum not sure if it's the Befunge or JS end of that; it may well be that they wrote something like output = output + newly_output_character, which is O(n) with a naive implementation of JS strings

feersum

I mean I found that by looking at the source, not by measuring the performance.

It applies some regexes to the entire output each time a char is printed.

ais523

aha

Bald Bantha

@ais523 your edit to my question is reeaaaally confusing, care to explain?

I mean, I get what it says (mostly) but I think it may change the challenge a bit, and it isn't clear that all the interpreters must be written by the same person to be included in their chain

xnor

22:11

@HyperNeutrino that's a nice problem, i think i have a solution

ais523

@BaldBantha it's to do with PPCG rules

most of the languages on the list don't have pre-existing interpreters

and so they wouldn't be allowed without that change

I did change it so that you could legally start a chain by continuing someone else's but that's just to give a legal starting point, you wouldn't get points for it

I should make the scoring clearer, though

there

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22:39

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Add numbers without math functions. In this challenge, you must take an input that can take at least 10 numbers separated by commas and add them together with no math functions. Least bytes win. Normal codegolf rules apply. Examples: Input: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Output: 55 Input: 1,1 O...

TuxCopter

ReferenceError: |this| used uninitialized in SendAction class constructor

what does that even mean

Downgoat

22:57

@TuxCopter You did not initalize field

TuxCopter

What field

The constructor is

constructor(dst, src) {
        this.dst = dst;
        this.src = src;
    }

I don't see what can bork

Downgoat

Poll: Favorite function keyword?

@TuxCopter :O is this JS :D

TuxCopter

yes

Downgoat

what compiler are you use

TuxCopter

@Downgoat using*

And I'm using browser JS

Downgoat

23:01

:O

0/10

TuxCopter

why

huh

changing the superclass of SendAction fix the error

that makes no sense

Downgoat

oh

you have to do super() even if no-args constructor

ATaco

My VPS payment came out ;-;

Downgoat

so it is saying that super is uninitalized so you can't use this

TuxCopter

oh

well thx

Downgoat

23:16

:O this is amazing thing: claudepache.github.io/es-optional-chaining

TuxCopter

@Downgoat TLDR?

Downgoat

@TuxCopter you can do foo.bar?.baz?.goat

TuxCopter

It's a . that doesn't error?

omg I need this

Downgoat

@TuxCopter it mean like if foo.bar is null, the expression will eval to null without thowing error

TuxCopter

that's awesome

Downgoat

23:23

ikr

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Hidden Strings This is real rough, I just wanted to get the idea down. The strings utility that comes on many GNU/Linux distros finds the strings in executables and lists them. The goal of this challenge is to write a program that has a null-terminated string in the compiled executable (compile...

ATaco

Red is winning by quite a bit and I'm a bit concerned.

Destructible Lemon

that's what happens when like 70% of chat is red

ATaco

Second question is: Why is 70% of the chat red?

TuxCopter

Yeah, SE has a strong red bias

ATaco

23:31

It's literally just: Is your ChatID even or odd.

Destructible Lemon

random chance? easter egg? bug?

TuxCopter

@ATaco That means that people with an even chat ID are more likely to be golfers

ATaco

Clearly this is a previously unheard of sociological rule.

"Even Numbers make people golf"

Destructible Lemon

no

golf makes even numbers

it's predestination

ATaco

Or, Perhaps, It's simply correlation.

Destructible Lemon

23:33

if you are going to golf, when you sign up you are given an even number

usually

ATaco

Perhaps, for every person who signs up to PPCG, someone signs up to CodeReview to balance.

Destructible Lemon

what would that have to do with the imbalance?

ATaco

The chatID, to my knowledge, is shared across all of chatexchange

TuxCopter

yep

ATaco

So, CodeReview gets a blue, we get a Red.

Destructible Lemon

23:44

I went to codereview once

it was awful

TuxCopter

But ppl at CR are nice

Destructible Lemon

wat

@Tuxcopters account has been compromised

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