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Writes random data to memory
 
That's...diabolical
 
Unfortunately I think the kernel gets in the way and protects you :(
It does draw pretty pictures to any connected monitors though
 
Yeah, why won't it let me shoot myself in the foot?
 
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A: What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?

juergen dTo control your addiction. If you reach the rep cap it is time to return to your real life. It works for me. And I really think it is a good thing. If we would not have it some people would just go on and on and maybe could not stop chasing that rep all the time.

Best reason for the repcap I've seen
 
 
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1:07 AM
Hey @ophact, congrats on exactly 1000 rep! :D
 
lame. get yourself a random-looking rep, then look that up on OEIS, and post it as a challenge
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> A249134 Numbers n such that Bernoulli number B_n has denominator 2730.
 
 
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2:23 AM
insert a message to revive the chat here
 
2:57 AM
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Is that you 2x-1?
Because that seems like the kind of silliness that I have come to love.
 
The Tarpit’s Silliness seems to be leaking.
@Lyxal Redwolf is everyone amd everyone is Redwolf.
 
3:25 AM
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Q: 2D Pathfinding with Momentum

SpitemasterYou are piloting a spaceship, outfitted with an engine that can accelerate you at 1km/s^2 in the direction the ship is facing (you have very good inertial dampers). You also have thrusters which can rotate you 180 degrees in 1s. You see on your scanner another ship, and decide to rendezvous with...

 
3:57 AM
@Makonede We don't need a goddamn message to revive the chat
 
@2x-1 precisely.
The chat lives without people injecting silliness.
 
@Lyxal Yeah
@Lyxal Redwolf's big block of English is useless
 
What do you call decimals as a way of representing fractions, when it's not necessarily using the decimal counting system?
 
@RedwolfPrograms We call that decimals
 
@2x-1 I'm glad I have someone who agrees with me!
 
4:03 AM
@Lyxal You know, just imagine how many e's are in these messages!
 
@2x-1 exactly! If I remember correctly, the letter e isn't favourable for redwolf.
 
4:40 AM
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Q: Convert a decimal to a fraction, approximately

Redwolf ProgramsTake the decimal number \$0.70710678\$. As a fraction, it'd be \$\frac{70710678}{100000000}\$, which simplifies to \$\frac{35355339}{50000000}\$. If you were to make the denominator \$1\$, the closest fraction is \$\frac{1}{1}\$. With \$2\$, it'd be \$\frac{1}{2}\$, and with \$3\$ it's \$\frac{2}...

 
 
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6:15 AM
@ChartZBelatedly thanks! Hopefully I don't get downvoted into triple digits...
@ChartZBelatedly are you seriously always active? It seems like no matter the time, you're posting answers or msgs in tnb
 
Once you pass 10k rep they take away your ability to sleep.
It's no longer necessary.
 
6:38 AM
@NewMainPosts I haven't suffered enough today
I'm going to try answering this in scratch
 
6:50 AM
Okay I actually got it working
wth
 
7:12 AM
0
Q: I palindrome the source code, you palindrome the input!

okieThis is a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its input/args. The tricky part is that if I make your source code palindrome via duplicating reversed source code after the or...

 
7:26 AM
in the context of your challenge, I'm not entirely sure you couldn't get away with just saying the input is some fractional number
It would still take the same logic to handle a rational datatype, would it not?
but yeah decimal point -> radix point, and you could say something like "positional representation" something something
 
7:51 AM
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

GlorfindelCalculate longest Stack Exchange streak Inspired by The longest consecutive days streak Input The URL https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/daily-site-access/[user id] here the last number is your user ID (found in the URL of your profile) contains information about which days you visited the ...

 
8:07 AM
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A: Removing The Nineteenth Byte

Jennifer J. EnrightThe free-online-converters.com is a Unit Converter of Light Seconds, Light Years, Steps, Terameters, areas, currency, density, energy, force, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, volume, and bytes. ours provide purpose only to provide free information. Is it an informative online ...

 
8:28 AM
I have a question: Is there any code that still work after being "rot-13"ed?
Kinda want to extend the source code manipulation to the extreme level, but rot-13
 are probably too extreme. To a point which no code will work after rot-13.
 
@okie Most production languages won't make it, but lots of esolangs will.
 
Specifying rot13 in alphabetic character only will help a bit. But I think that will make the challenge into "how to make a switch with alphabet" because of all other special character of esolangs.
 
Actually most esolangs are ASCII-only.
 
oh
 
The custom codepages were invented exclusively for golflangs
 
8:38 AM
so doing a ASCII rot-13 will work
 
Maybe.
Also, since the byte value range of "printable ASCII" is well-defined, I think you can do this: "If your lang has a custom codepage, apply rot13 to the bytes in the printable ASCII range in your code, and do not modify the rest. The input and output will be in pure printable ASCII."
 
okie, that's helpful - thanks!
 
9:06 AM
What kind of lang is defined as non-esolang
 
9:19 AM
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Q: I Rot-13 the source code, you Rot-19 the output!

okieThis is alternate of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its input/args. But again, The tricky part is that if I rot-13 your source code, the output must be r...

 
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Q: Would I mind you if I paste long TIO url for Pxem?

tail spark rabbit earI am a Pxem user; I have answered some in Pxem. Since tio.run does not provide Pxem, I am posting online demo, with my interpreter, like this. The problem is: code for the interpreter is long; so does the url. I have never been critized about that, but would I mind you if I keep submitting so?

 
 
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10:35 AM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI thanks!
 
 
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12:27 PM
@ophact Sleep? You mean "Time spent not on CGCC"? Why would anyone do that?
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12:48 PM
@ChartZBelatedly Because they can get tired sometimes
 
is it ok if i add a website link to in question to let people understand the question’s meaning more clearly
 
@okie Yes, but all the necessary knowledge should really be in the question itself. Use links for related, background, and in-depth info.
 
1:07 PM
@okie if the info is extremely long or something that you do not feel capable of explaining, you can include links but try to maximize the amount of info in the challenge because the links could always die.
 
1:18 PM
ok
Sorry for anyone that is confused with my rot problem, I think I may have a conflict in problem requirement .(Full ascii, Printable ascii) I apologize for any damaged braincell.
 
I'd recommend the sandbox in the future :p
 
1:34 PM
I’ll remember that next time.
 
1:45 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

pxeger(needs a title) code-golf decision-problem subsequence string Given two strings \$ A \$ and \$ B \$ and a positive integer \$ n \$, determine whether \$ B \$ is composed entirely of (possibly overlapping) strict substrings of \$ A \$ of a length of at least \$ n \$. Test cases n A ...

 
 
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4:29 PM
4
Q: Summon the sevens

ArnauldYou are given a \$3\times3\$ square matrix where each cell is any digit between \$0\$ and \$9\$ except \$7\$. Your task is to figure out the minimum number of digits that must be replaced with \$7\$'s so that the sums of the digits in each row and each column are the same. NB: There is no constra...

 
 
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5:40 PM
CMC: Given a string of brackets, where there are an equal number of opening and closing ones, rotate the string until the brackets are balanced/nested. For example, ]][][[ becomes [][[]] or [[]][]
 
or even just CMC: output all rotations of a string
would be a pretty interesting challenge
 
That's a very different CMC :p
 
@RedwolfPrograms If there are multiple valid choices, any one is good, right?
 
@pxeger Scala: s=>Seq.iterate(s,s.size)(s=>s.tail+s(0)). Pretty basic, but Redwolf's CMC is too hard for me :P
 
This actually might be a good challenge for main
 
Yeah, agreed.
@pxeger What if multiple rotations result in the same string?
 
@RedwolfPrograms If Scala used the PCRE flavor: Stream.iterate(_)(s=>s.tail+s(0))find(_ matches raw"(\[(?:[^\][]+|(?R))*+\])+"), but unfortunately, no recursive regex :(
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Can you not use my method?
 
6:00 PM
@Adám I don't understand your method :P
 
Should I want a few hours to post it? I'm about to repcap today :p
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Keep rotating until the following condition holds: compare the string to [ and to ] then subtract the ] comparisons from the [ comparisons and get the running sum. If there are no negative elements, stop the loop.
@RedwolfPrograms How about sandboxing?
 
I'll sandbox it for a few hours, I guess.
 
@RedwolfPrograms For all such strings, is it always possible?
 
@Adám Let me try that. Booleans aren't numbers in Scala, so it'll be a bit trickier, but certainly doable.
 
6:04 PM
@ChartZBelatedly Should be
If you ignore everything that's already balanced you always get /]*[*/, which can be rotated a number of times to be balanced
Oh hey, I might actually hit 9k soon!
I shouldn't need to award any (big) bounties for a while, so I might get a chance to keep the rep I'm earning
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI What happens if you attempt maths on Booleans?
 
@RedwolfPrograms Pretty soon you'll be able to see all 8000 Sandbox answers :P
 
@Adám Compilation errors
 
Ouch. Descrete Booleans are so silly, imo.
 
I could define operators like +, -`, etc. myself, but not in code golf, and it's not useful in real code.
@Adám Booleans packed in 8 bits are pretty silly, but you don't normally need to do maths with them in Scala.
I keep saying "bytes" instead of "bits" :\
 
6:11 PM
What'd be the alternative to 8 bits per boolean?
 
That would probably be slower
 
Boolean arrays could then be packed in better, and structs could potentially be smaller, I guess, although that doesn't matter on the JVM
@RedwolfPrograms Yeah, I guess chips aren't optimized for that, although that could maybe be changed.
 
Even in assembly you use 8 bit (or more) booleans
 
Feels like a waste of space
 
6:13 PM
You could always pack the boolean arrays yourself, with an unsigned integer and some bitwise stuff
Basically flags
 
I never understood the idea of having separate "booleans" and "integers" tbh
 
Bah, I'm not doing something myself!
@ChartZBelatedly On the JVM, at least, it may be so that you can implement them however (use 32 bits if you want)
 
!!new Boolean(false) === true
JS does booleans correctly
 
@RedwolfPrograms Flagged as spam
 
@RedwolfPrograms Not at all. Today, most operations are RAM-constrained, not CPU-constrained, so you can et huge speed-ups with packed bit-Booleans.
 
6:16 PM
@Adám {{citation needed}}
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Wrong. They have extensive sets of bit-Boolean operations.
 
@Adám Oh nice
@Adám Maybe that's why the JVM has separate booleans, then.
 
@pxeger My livelihood. This is how APL can manage to beat expertly hand-coded C.
 
@Adám right, they should be functions instead :::::)
 
6:18 PM
@Wezl Church?
 
Boolean(new Boolean(false)) is my new second favorite JS expression
 
@Adám yes, church booleans
 
@pxeger text and video
 
@RedwolfPrograms You'll love (Boolean) (boolean) Boolean.valueOf(new Boolean(false)) then L:P
 
@Wezl Super easy in APL
 
6:22 PM
@Adám pretty good, except you can't store them in arrays
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Redwolf ProgramsRotate brackets until they're balanced code-golf Take the string of brackets ]][][[. When you rotate it to the right once, you get []][][. If you rotate it again, you get [[]][]. All brackets in this string are balanced. The Task: Your program (or function) will be given a string of brackets, re...

 
@RedwolfPrograms Scala, copying Adám's solution: Stream.iterate(_)(s=>s.tail+s(0))find(_.scanLeft(1)((n,c)=>if(c<93)n+1 else n-1)forall(_>0))
 
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Q: Fill the screen in 6502asm.com

Tux1Introduction I've always liked the idea of finding the most possible bang-for-your-buck squeezed out of a tiny chip, like the 6502. Of course, I'll need to start small. Filling the screen on 6502asm.com should be easy enough. Challenge Fill the entire program output screen on 6502asm.com with the...

 
6:39 PM
@pxeger prolog, too long: f(A,A).f([A|B],D):-append(B,[A],C),f(C,D).
outputs results infinitely
looks like it can't find the second solution if run backwards
come to the prolog chat room if you want me to explain it (you do)
 
7:30 PM
@Wezl Only awkwardly. BQN can, though.
 
 
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8:47 PM
are reference implementations ever a bad thing?
 
Not really
 
I guess maybe on puzzles.
 
They might be bad because they could give you an excuse to write a worse spec for the challenge :p
Bad news. The tag warnings are applied on individual tags, no way to warn if there isn't a certain tag or if some combination of tags is used.
The regexes are applied to the tag names. Individually. Such useful. Very warning.
I guess we could write some really fancy regexes to check for certain strings in the challenge body that would indicate various issues
 
See, tag-based error messages only really make sense for non-blacklisted tags that are often misused, or for questions that should have specific tags
Beyond that, they're almost entirely useless, so it doesn't make much sense to not provide functionality for the second :?
 
9:09 PM
Any feedback on any of these? Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4
 
9:20 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Wezlcadaddadadaddddaddddddr (WIP) Create a function (or closest equivalent, or full program) that takes an list of some datatype (your choice) that may be nested, and returns something (WIP). Examples: Array , Accessor => Result =================================== [0,1,2], 'cdr' =>...

 
@RedwolfPrograms too late I wrote no spec for ^^^
English is a lot less expressive than JS
 
@Wezl Yes, if they're inconsistent with what the challenge says
 
(though JS isn't as expressive as prolog, of course)
 
9:32 PM
0
Q: What is the 29 power of 3+e75

the deadly catNot sure what in the world the 29th power is. Does anybody know what the 29th power is?

 
10:00 PM
@NewMainPosts I'm so fascinated by this question :P
OP has the Informed badge, so has read the Tour and should know that such a question is nowhere near on-topic. Additionally, their bio says:
> I am good at math
 
It's truly unique
 
Which raises so many more questions :P
 
And why so specific...
Unless they mean 3e+75
Or 3e75
 
But even then, that's still so specific it's odd :P
 
Or 3+1e75
Yeah
 
10:03 PM
A lot of the "what's this number to a high power?" questions have some kind of link between the numbers, or the current year, or something. This is just 100% random :P
 
Maybe e is supposed to be euler's number :p
 
1<variablename>75 is not normal math, but of course it's not a normal question
they're just trying to be unique.
and succeeding :)
 
@RedwolfPrograms But thats not interesting either, and it's written weirdly if so :P
 
Maybe (3+e⁷⁵)²⁹?
 
@Adám That's interesting, it causes an overflow error for Python :P
 
10:07 PM
They might be a physicist who's nearly found the solution to quantum gravity and they just forgot how exponentiation works
And that's some magical universe constant
 
Potentially. They've got 4 network accounts: Here, Mother Meta, Worldbuilding and Space Exploration :P
@ChartZBelatedly Additionally, they got those badges a week ago, so it isn't just a drive by user posting, they've been around for at least a week before this :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly I thought Python had infinite range/precision. It isn't even very big.
 
The floating point numbers don't, though
It's just IEEE 754 doubles right?
 
@RedwolfPrograms IEEE 754 decimal128.
 
@NewMainPosts Oh, and they're currently suspended on SpaceEx for a year, but their activity page shows no activity, despite having badges that require activity
I am fully engrossed in this enigma :P
 
10:14 PM
@ChartZBelatedly 1 week suspended for rule violations on mother Meta.
 
They deleted a badly received question on Space Exploration at least once
 
CMC: Output (3+e⁷⁵)²⁹ (the mathematical value)
 
@ChartZBelatedly utf-8, n bytes :), (3+e⁷⁵)²⁹ (the mathematical value)
 
Is that (Math.E**75+3)**29?
 
@RedwolfPrograms Yeah
 
10:17 PM
@Wezl I guess that exploits a standard loophole
 
@RedwolfPrograms Wait, you know that notation, but not bog-standard mathematical notation‽
 
The font made the 9 at the end look smaller :p
 
yeah
 
@ChartZBelatedly (why the `s?)
 
@Adám Lines the superscript up nicer (at least on my device)
 
10:19 PM
We need MathJax in chat
 
Chat is SE's neglected child.
 
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Q: Any chance of MathJax in chat?

MajenkoIt would be really nice to be able to use MathJaX (math formulas) in chat. Not specially for formulae, but for things like $V_{CC}$ in electronics chat would be very useful.

@Adám Anything that isn't Teams is SE's neglected child
 
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Q: Patterns in Permutations

Peter KageyThis fastest-code challenge is based partly on this MSE question and exists to extend some OEIS sequences, and create others. If I extend or create sequences based on this challenge, I'll link to this challenge so that folks can see where the values come from. If you'd like direct credit, include...

 
@NewMainPosts Whenever I see a new challenge by Peter, my response is always "Ooh, this looks interesting. Should be fun to watch Arnauld solve it"
 
10:26 PM
Is it important or useful at all for the scoring criterion to be the first tag on a question?
 
They don't have an order, do they?
They just get rearranged by popularity anyway
 
it changes the title
@RedwolfPrograms oh
 
@Wezl As Redwolf said, they're auto-ordered by "How many questions have this tag?"
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI yas. English isn't even turing complete. (except for now someone's going to link to an esolang named english :P)
 
10:29 PM
WDYM english isn't turning complete?
 
( :P) looking like a probiscis monkey was unintentional )
 
@RedwolfPrograms Yeah, English isn't even a programming language, but you can describe any turing-complete program in it.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI badly
 
Hell, I can "interpret" a bf prorgam "written" in English, that's the litmus test :P
 
10:31 PM
@Wezl I disagree. JS can take multiple files to make a nice website. In English, you just do "Make me a website, code monkey!" (:P)
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI you can use JS to do that too
at least if you have JQuery
 
@Wezl Oh right, English doesn't have jQuery. I guess JS is more expressive, then :P
 
and JS has syntax highlighting, which makes it more powerful
 
"Imagine you have a infinitely long list of zeros. Now, increase the first zero to be 50. Move to the zero next to it and increase it to 10. Next, while the second number is not zero, increase the first number by 5, and decrease the second number by 1. Finally, tell me the value of the first number"
 
@Wezl JS doesn't have syntax highlighting, editors do. I could add syntax highlighting for English to any IDE I wanted too.
 
10:34 PM
See, brainfuck in English, ergo English is TC :P
@Wezl IIRC @RedwolfPrograms has syntax highlighting for English too
 
I need to make an atomic code golf challenge that uses natural language-like commands.
How do you parse English to highlight it? Or is it just a crappy highlighter?
 
Correct me if I'm misremembering, but I believe Redwolf's mentioned having synesthesia before, so "sees" certain words as colors
 
Oh, I thought they made an actual script.
 
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee @RedwolfPrograms I'm being immature, but it's worth it.
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10:37 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI You alright there?
 
@ChartZBelatedly What do you think?
 
@ChartZBelatedly maybe english is expressive for them then, but not me
 
@Wezl Then develop synesthesia, duh :P
 
@Wezl You better learn to speak muh language, foreigner!
According to healthline:
> But other stimulants, like cannabis, alcohol, and even caffeine, have also been shownTrusted Source to cause temporary synesthesia.
Wezl, you just need to get drunk.
 
10:42 PM
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I fully agree with the implications of this message and would promote it
 
I hate this
 
I feel like this is my neuro teacher
 
What have you done and why?
 
@ChartZBelatedly Not me, blame Wezl
 
10:43 PM
@RedwolfPrograms Install ChatJax++, it actually works :P
(Only on rooms whose parent site has mathjax, so not all rooms)
 
nice
 
Uses \$ delimiters or $$
 
$$\c\h\a\t\j\a\x$$
that's a bit disappointing :)
 
If you want to play around with it a lot, create a room to do so (the Sandbox room doesn't work)
 
By the way, @Wezl, you should check out the MPS IDE, it has AST editing, which is cool.
 
10:46 PM
@ChartZBelatedly or you could use the Tarpit's Silliness room
 
> This is why plain text is not executable—it lacks formatting. (This also explains the lack of functionality in Microsoft Excel.)
The shade :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly D: I thought that role was solely reserved for me. How could you betray me like this? :p
 
@Lyxal I hate a great many things, but never for long :P
 
@ChartZBelatedly this is so sad. Alexa play Despacito.
 
You need to increase your attention span.
Look at me - I've trained myself so I now hate all dogs, all cats, all aardvarks, and most humans.
 
10:51 PM
> so the meaning of a few parts of this program may not be immediately clear.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI <span id="attention" style="width: 69000px"></span> - like this?
 
Someone blind me, please.
@Lyxal :P
 
I've changed my mind. I now hate a very few number of things, but I hate them with an undying and burning passion. This language is one of them :P
> It is self-evident that WysiScript is more powerful than most existing programming languages because it has more colors and formatting. However, some snooty theoretical computer scientists have shown a reluctance to accept this clear truth because of the lack of color-based results in the literature, and a couple have even gone so far as to question whether WysiScript is a practical language at all
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How would we even score it byte wise?
 
@ChartZBelatedly That's the spirit! You can work your way up to 5, then 10, and eventually an infinite number of things to hate. Before you know it, you'll hate the entire world and even yourself!
 
10:55 PM
@Lyxal The same way we should score every submission: the size of the file when saved
 
@Lyxal You don't, you just suspend the account of any user who attempts a WysiScript answer.
 
> We make use of the language P″, which was introduced by Böhm and Jacopini in 1964 and proven to be Turing-complete [1, 2]. Therefore it suffices to exhibit a P″ interpreter in WysiScript. We assume the reader is familiar with P″, so we will not belabor the details of that language.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI D:
 
Oh yes, I am very familiar with P″. In fact, I cannot think of a TC language I am more familiar with :P
 
I'm feeling a strong desire to fizzbuzz in this language
 
10:58 PM
@Lyxal Don't, Lyxal. You're above this.
If you do it, I'll have no choice but to flag your answer as offensive.
P′′ (P double prime) is a primitive computer programming language created by Corrado Böhm in 1964 to describe a family of Turing machines. == Definition == P ′ ′ {\textstyle {\mathcal {P}}^{\prime \prime }} (hereinafter written P′′) is formally defined as a set of words on the four-instruction alphabet { R , λ , ( , ) } {\textstyle \...
 
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