Is it a haiku? code-golf string decision-problem
So you want to create a haiku, but you're not sure if it follows the syllable rules for a haiku.
I couldn't be bothered to write a proper blurb like I usually do, so you'll have to make do with this. Let's get stuck right in.
Finding a haiku o...
The algorithm is as follows:
Get start time.
Get current time.
Compute difference.
Print carriage return character.
Print the difference in %T format (hh:mm:ss).
Make sure to flush stdout.
Sleep one second.
Go to step 2.
Behaviour after 23:59:59 may be undefined.
Example in C, POSIX-compatib...
> path/to/file.c(182): fatal error #2210: More than 100 errors, please improve yourself. > If compiling a Windows program, make sure you use the /Ze option!
Xenix was the most popular Unix flavour of the 80's. However, it was designed before the POSIX standards came to be, and its final version was released shortly after the first POSIX specification was written.
Many programs written for *nix-like operating systems since the 1980's conform to, and ...
@user202729 It's like a rollback, but you also edit the old revision a bit
Let's say you golf your code and forget to update the Tio link. Then you edit the post, update the link but you accidentally delete your jelly code. You can edit the old revision and refresh the tio link, invalidating your most recent edit with the code removed.
Approximate definite integrals using Riemann sums
Background
Left and right Riemann sums are approximations to definite integrals. Of course, in mathematics we need to be very accurate, so we aim to calculate them with a number of subdivisions that approaches infinity. As code-golfers, we often...
@Cowsquack When my father worked at IBM, they needed to translate between two code-pages. They wanted to do a plain lookup followed by indexing but both code-pages coudn't fit in memory at the same time. Therefore, the matter was transferred to IBM's Department for Seemingly Unsolvable Problems (i.e. my father) why managed to golf it by using the transformations and sub-ranges.
Let's say I have two possible answers in Charcoal, one using drawing primitives, and one a port of a generic string-manipulation answer. I'm looking for an antonym of generic to describe the other answer.
Graphical Stars
code-golf graphical-output
Meta: this is currently pretty rough so I could get some ideas down quick. I'm also probably not using the right terminology as I'm not very familiar with graphs and graph theory. Looking for feedback.
Take an input integer 50 <= n <= 300 and constr...
Is there a more elegant way to prove that (n % 26) + 56 != n for all values of n (integer)? Currently I am saying that if n % 26 = n - 56 then n - 26a = n - 56 for some integer a, so 26a = 56, for which there is no integer solution
@DJMcMayhem I'm rather enjoying a board game called Tiny Epic Quest. It's in the Tiny Epic series, decidedly complex board games in very small boxes, and is rather fun for four players.
Of course, my favorite Board Game I Never Get To Play is an epic strategy game called Twilight Imperium. Average play time for a six player game is about 10 hours plus setup and cleanup.
@PhiNotPi I enjoy Dominion, but I don't know those other ones
@AdmBorkBork Holy crap. I have a hard time with games over an hour, and I personally probably couldn't stomach a game over 2 hours max. I'll check out tiny epic though
@Cowsquack That's a good one. My family played it tons growing up. The seafarers expansion is my favorite
Anyway, the reason I asked is because I had a 50 USD$ credit to a local game store. I couldn't figure out what to get cause I'm there were so many options I didn't know. I did end up getting Coup: Resistance, but I've got some left over
Time Stories is a long (4-5 hour) cooperative board game (time-travel themed), it's good but there's relatively little replay value since it's mostly a giant riddle.
@PhiNotPi I actually saw that one in the store. It intrigued me, and I really like time travel. But I passed on it because I didn't know much about it, and it was slightly out of my budget
I didn't realize it was 4-5 hours though. That's kind of a turn-off for me
@AdmBorkBork One of my favorites. Already own a copy
I haven't tried any expansions though
Have either of you ever played anything in the One Night Werewolf series from Bezier games?
Hands down my favorite board/card game I've ever played
Pillars of the Earth is... a "resource-allocation game" if I had to put a name to it. Medium length of 2 hours, medieval themed. The goal is to spend workers to acquire resources, spend money to acquire craftsmen, and spend other workers to do lots of other activities. Goal is to acquire the most victory points in 6 turns.
@DJMcMayhem Oh wait, yeah, I played that once or twice at a Halloween party a few years ago. I found it rather lopsided, but that may have just been the group we were playing with.
Certain rounds might be lopsided, but that's kinda up to chance on the cards people get and what things happen during the night. But of course, you can always balance it by adding or removing the right cards
I greatly enjoy werewolf because 1) I like social manipulation/lying games a lot 2) It's easy to pick up, but some of the scenarios you can end up get really complicated, 3) endless mixing and matching of roles/expansions to keep it fresh and 4) since one round is only about 10 minutes, you get to play a bunch of rounds
And so far, every time I've played it it's stayed pretty fresh. I don't think there's any fool proof strategy, so it keeps you on your toes
The only thing I dislike about Mafia (and my opinion is highly biased for that matter) is that I have never been the one of the killers, although I have played it many times
I am looking for feedback about how floating-point inaccuracies can be handled here, and also looking for more appropriate tags (Note that the Sandbox post is really just a draft, I will add examples and stuff later). Any thoughts?
In Bang, there's 1 sheriff, 2 deputies, 2 outlaws, and 1 renegade (if you have a 6-player game). Instead of doing a day-night cycle, players take turns drawing cards, which gives them things like ammunition. On your turn you can attempt to shoot any other player within range, which possibly takes away 1 of their life points. Nobody knows who anyone else is, except that everyone knows who the sheriff is.
@DJMcMayhem I don't really recall clearly. I just remember that one "side" seemed to win more often than the other. Like I said it could have been the group, too, because we were playing with like 2 people like yourself who had played dozens of games and three or four brand-new players.
@PhiNotPi That sounds similar to Coup, which has an element of BS to it (anyone can claim any role, but people can call you out if they think you're lying)
@AdmBorkBork Yeah, that could ruin it. I'd encourage you to try it again if that experience didn't leave a bad taste in your mouth. Generally, an experienced player is good to have to help balance out the roles/level of experience/number of players, so feel free to ask me for some good scenarios
5 players is generally the minimum, and I think 6-8 is the perfect size
Also a fun game to play (with creative people) is Story Wars. It's simple: there's a judge and two teams. The teams draw some character cards from a deck (imaginary/fantasy creatures and monsters), and they basically argue over which team of creatures would win in a fight. The judge picks a winner, teams rotate, etc.
@Mr.Xcoder I think how you have the floating point precision is pretty well specified as is. Usually specifying accuracy to a certain decimal is sufficient.
@AdmBorkBork Is it overexplained? Should I trim it down to Your answers must be accurate to at least 3 decimal places?
Careful with the "distinct and consistent values for k" thing -- you could wind up with a situation where someone has "the left Riemann function" as one and "the right Riemann function" as the other, thereby negating any actual code golfing. — AdmBorkBork4 mins ago
@AdmBorkBork Uhm, but consistent solves that, doesn't it?
@PhiNotPi It's the type of game where you have a serious argument about whether a 50 foot tall Hellen Keller or Darth Vader but obsessed with cats would win
Rhombus sequence
Tags: code-golf math sequence
Imagine enumerating the elements of rhombi that which grow [1],[1,3,1],[1,3,5,3,1],… (only odd numbers such that they align nicely). This would look like as follows, note that you always begin enumerating with 1:
01
1 ...
I love it, a fried and I have (as @Cowsquack said) a signal which hasn't been discovered ever since the fall of 2016, and we have played a bunch of games in the meantime
CMC: Write the shortest snippet of code that performs the mapping 1 -> 1, 2 -> 1, 3 -> 1, 4 -> 0, 5 -> 0, 6 -> 0, 7 -> 1, 8 -> 0, 9 -> 1 (mostly biased towards Python). snippet means that you can assume the input (which is an integer in the range [1, 10)) is stored in a variable x (so for Python for instance, in lambda x:<expression with x> you only count <expression with x>)
In this challenge I will ask you to find a QR decomposition of a square matrix. The QR decomposition of matrix A is two Matrices Q and R such that A = QR. In particular we are looking for Q to be an orthogonal matrix (that is QTQ=QQT=I where I is the multiplicative identity and T is the transpo...
Division Loops
Given any positive integer supported by your language:
Divide the input in half, rounding one up and one down.
Divide either stack in half, then take the larger half and add it to the other stack. Ex: {2}{1,1}. You are allowed to completely exhaust a stack, i.e. continue dividin...
Is it a haiku? code-golf string decision-problem
So you want to create a haiku, but you're not sure if it follows the syllable rules for a haiku.
I couldn't be bothered to write a proper blurb like I usually do, so you'll have to make do with this. Let's get stuck right in.
Finding a haiku o...
The algorithm is as follows:
Get start time.
Get current time.
Compute difference.
Print carriage return character.
Print the difference in %T format (hh:mm:ss).
Make sure to flush stdout.
Sleep one second.
Go to step 2.
Behaviour after 23:59:59 may be undefined.
Example in C, POSIX-compatib...
Approximate definite integrals using Riemann sums
Background
Left and right Riemann sums are approximations to definite integrals. Of course, in mathematics we need to be very accurate, so we aim to calculate them with a number of subdivisions that approaches infinity. As code-golfers, we often...
Graphical Stars
code-golf graphical-output
Meta: this is currently pretty rough so I could get some ideas down quick. I'm also probably not using the right terminology as I'm not very familiar with graphs and graph theory. Looking for feedback.
Take an input integer 50 <= n <= 300 and constr...
Rhombus sequence
Tags: code-golf math sequence
Imagine enumerating the elements of rhombi that which grow [1],[1,3,1],[1,3,5,3,1],… (only odd numbers such that they align nicely). This would look like as follows, note that you always begin enumerating with 1:
01
1 ...
In this challenge I will ask you to find a QR decomposition of a square matrix. The QR decomposition of matrix A is two Matrices Q and R such that A = QR. In particular we are looking for Q to be an orthogonal matrix (that is QTQ=QQT=I where I is the multiplicative identity and T is the transpo...
Division Loops
Given any positive integer supported by your language:
Divide the input in half, rounding one up and one down.
Divide either stack in half, then take the larger half and add it to the other stack. Ex: {2}{1,1}. You are allowed to completely exhaust a stack, i.e. continue dividin...
