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The Slices Puzzle Puzzle
Background
Slices is a puzzle game. Placed on a 2d map is a set of islands; possibly just a single island. Placed on each island is a set of points. The task is to draw a number of lines crossing the islands such that no point can be reached from another without crossing ...
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SE Sandbox Link, Codidact Sandbox Link
Inspired by this video.
Given a positive integer, draw its Cistercian representation as ascii art.
The Challenge
Cistercian numerals are a decimal-based number representation system which use simple line based drawings to represent 4-digit numerals. Their s...
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"Factorise" a quadratic
When learning to factorise quadratics in the form \$x^2 + ax + b\$, a common technique is to find two numbers, \$p, q\$ such that
$$pq = b \\
p + q = a$$
as, for such numbers, \$x^2 + ax + b = (x + p)(x + q)\$
You are to take two integers \$a, b \in (-\infty, +\infty)\$ an...
Challenge: given a program in pythong, determine whether the program will stop or run forever in a standard python 3.8.5 environment. Output true if it stops.
example 1:
while (True):
print("hello world!");
output:
example 2:
def fun(a):
return fun(a - 1);
fun(0);
answer: true
this is becau...
