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1:00 PM
bye bye
 
Randomly choose an positive integer in a large enough range, how likely is it possible to append some 1's at the end to make it a prime?
 
in base 10?
 
Yea now
 
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Q: Egyptian fractions summing to n

Wheat WizardAn "Egyptian fraction" is a list of distinct fractions with a numerator of \$1\$. For example: \$ \frac 1 1+ \frac 1 2 + \frac 1 3 + \frac 1 6 \$ The "size" of an Egyptian fraction is just the number of terms involved. Your task is to take a positive integer \$n\$ and output the smallest Egypti...

 
1:14 PM
Opposite of that
Is night.
Will sleep
 
i HAVE MADE A GRAVE ERROR
 
no
@GingerIndustries Yesn't
 
GOD HELP ME
 
(Maybe some fake prime there though
 
1:15 PM
@GingerIndustries Seems like a you problem
Have you tried using jquery?
 
@lyxal this is what happens when xkcd.com/1854 #4
 
@GingerIndustries Try pressing CapsLock.
 
@Adám DIDN'T HELP
 
@GingerIndustries Throw the machine, get a new one, login. which refresh layer?
 
@GingerIndustries rotate your keyboard upside down
That usually fixes 69% of problems
 
1:17 PM
@GingerIndustries Huh, I just discovered a typo there.
 
@l4m2 fxv tt,Z
 
56 also failed but 561 is a fake prime
 
@Adám yea, AOL isn't spelled "GMail"
 
@GingerIndustries reboot?
 
@PyGamer0 the windows are gone but the datacenter is still online
CMC: Figure out a way to do the harder refresh
 
1:20 PM
@GingerIndustries get an axe?
 
@PyGamer0 okay, now what
 
@GingerIndustries autohotkey
If it's good enough for Tom Scott's emoji keyboard, it's good enough for a TNB joke
 
@GingerIndustries now aim at your computer
 
@PyGamer0 okay
 
and with full force strike your computer¹
¹not advised to do so by medical professionals
 
1:22 PM
@GingerIndustries It says "CTRL+F5, CTRL+⇧, ⌘⇧R" when it should say "CTRL+F5, CTRL+⇧+R, ⌘⇧R"
 
@PyGamer0 Medical professionals don't know nothin about computer management
 
@lyxal exactly
 
@PyGamer0 my computer restarted and now the screen looks like it took LSD, is this normal?
 
@GingerIndustries perfectly executed
 
@PyGamer0 ping says that GMail's datacenters are still online
 
1:26 PM
@GingerIndustries hm wait
 
Hello
 
o/
 
@PyGamer0 any medical professional born after 1993 can't professionally medicine...all they know is Mayo clinic, charge they patients, eat hot chip and lie
 
@lyxal I, too, eat hot chip and lie.
star if you also eat hot chip and lie
 
@GingerIndustries ok so get a tank
 
@PyGamer0 Last time I tried that the military got pissed
 
@lyxal why not also twerk, be bisexual?
 
@GingerIndustries hm ok let them get pissed
 
@PyGamer0 look man I can't go back to jail
@pxeger run that by me again?
 
tell em you got a nuclear bomb and can cause a nuclear fallout
@pxeger o_o
 
1:30 PM
@PyGamer0 but I don't
 
@GingerIndustries ok let me arrange one for you
 
@lyxal which meme is this from?
 
Ah
 
@GingerIndustries done it should be in the sky somewhere, look out
 
1:31 PM
@pxeger @PyGamer0 ._.
 
what
 
@pxeger that is suspiciously specific
 
^ this sums up this chatroom 50% of the time
6
 
of course ive seen that before, but for some reason this time i misread it as like
its crazy how long new technology (such as ms dos) takes to reach some industries
 
@thejonymyster people in the 1970s be like
 
1:35 PM
yesss lol
 
@GingerIndustries Woah a lot of pings.
 
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Q: Euler Irregular Primes

GabeEuler Irregular Primes Your challenge is to find all Euler Irregular Primes (A prime p is Euler-irregular if it divides an Euler number E(2n) with 0<2n<p−1) under n. Scoring Your goal is to have the fewest points the points are given by the amount of seconds it takes to generate the first 1,000 E...

 
damn i was hoping someone would address the other problem with that in the sandbox since i didnt know how to word it lol
 
@lyxal you mean %69 of problems?
 
hahahaaaaa
 
1:46 PM
@NewPosts Off-topic so this needs light.
 
@Fmbalbuena why is it off-topic?
 
@thejonymyster See WW's comment
 
unclear is not off-topic
 
@thejonymyster sorry
 
it is OK ^_^
peace on earth
 
1:52 PM
@thejonymyster War
 
@thejonymyster don't worry, I've still got that nuke that @PyGamer0 gave me
 
thanks, all ive got are fireworks
 
@GingerIndustries Nope, I have 99999 War.
 
new hit web game war.io
 
2:00 PM
@thejonymyster I can't play
 
CMQ: Other ways to do this?
 
@GingerIndustries Easy, ask other people.
 
@GingerIndustries When they go to the doctor, encode the book you want to give them or a CAD of the gift or whatever using DNA, then insert that DNA into their body
 
@user get Tim to inject the present into their SE profile
 
kill their gift many years before their house is built, and bury it underground there, so once the house gets built the ghost of their gift will haunt them
 
2:15 PM
@GingerIndustries because_this_computer_contains_virus.exe
 
@GingerIndustries bring james bond and tell him to give the present to the person
by doing sick moves
 
@GingerIndustries Could you not post that many xkcd one boxes when they aren't relevant to any ongoing discussion?
 
@GingerIndustries ^
 
@WheatWizard sorry
 
CMQ: What is a codepage, and is it's purpose?
 
2:21 PM
@BgilMidol This is for SCBS encoding
and a example:
 
@BgilMidol so that each character in the code page is a single byte
 
@BgilMidol it's a way to use special Unicode chars in a golflang and still have them be one byte each
 
import sys
code_page = "|¬°!1\"2#3$4%5&6/7(8)9=0?'\\¿¡\tq@wertyuiopasdfghjklñzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLÑZXCVBNM¨´+*~{}^`[],.-_:;<>éýúíóáÉÝÚÍÓÁèùìòàÈÙÌÒÀêûî"
code_page += "ôâÊÛÎÔÂ\nëÿüöïäËÜÖÏÄᐍᐎᐓᐗᎾᚁᚂᚃᚄᚅᚆᚇᚈᚉᚊᚋᚌᚍᚎᚏᏔᏕᏖᏗᏘᏙᏚᏛᏜᏝᏞᏟᏠᏡᏢᏣᏤᏥᏦᏧᏨᏩᏪᏫᏬᏭᏮᏯᏰᏱᏲᏳᏴᏵᏸᏹᏺᏻᏼᏽᎳᎴᎵᎶᎷᎸᎹᎺᎻᎼᎽᎿᏀᏁᏂᏃᏄᏅᏆᏇᏈᏉᏊᏋᏌᏍᏎᏏᏐᏑᏒᏓ×ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎaĐ"
with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as file:
    code = file.read()
    code = "".join(code_page[i] for i in code)
^ example of codepage
 
APOL uses lots of special chars but almost all of them are >1b in size
 
tbh i always thought of it the other way around
 
2:23 PM
you have to arrange the glyphs your golflang uses into a 16 × 16 grid
 
theres 256 bytes but a lot of them are messed up and control chars
 
so I use a codepage to indicate which character represesnts which byte
 
also keep the ascii range same
 
yea
to me it just makes more sense to like
have the user paste a weird symbol for a byte than like, some control character
 
so that you can easily convert ascii to numbers
redwolf is the codepage master, ask him for more tips :p
 
2:25 PM
@lyxal Idk about Arn, but Stax doesn't even count as compressed in my book
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani which book?
 
most frustrating thing about ascii is that ( and ) are adjacent but [ ] < > and { } are not
(), [\], <=>, {|}
 
()[]<>{}
 
@PyGamer0 The Art of Code Golf, coming out next September, it's 25,1298 pages long with a foreward by a former president
 
@Fmbalbuena ( is 40 and ) is 41, but [ is 91 and ] is 93
so you cant algorithmically match parens based on charcode Y_Y
 
2:27 PM
But yeah, Stax's "compression" is hardly even compression IMO. It's essentially just an n-bit code page, but for the subset of ASCII it uses.
 
@thejonymyster what about C and D?
 
C and D are next to eachother but they are not parentheses
 
@thejonymyster CD kind of look like parentheses actually though
 
@pxeger rookie mistake, they are not
 
2:28 PM
@thejonymyster Almost as if some of those were not in the the precursor character set… Oh.
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani so the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
 
@thejonymyster <=> makes sense to me, since they really aren't brackets
 
note: () is actually the odd one out
 
The fact that [\] and {|} are identical apart from the shift key is quite nice
 
me and some friends were bored and were messing with a custom char encoding that was like
super consistent
 
2:30 PM
@pxeger But why are they in funny order on the keyboard: []\?
 
@thejonymyster *laughs in ""*
 
quotation marks are also not parens
easy mistake to make
 
normal people use this:
^
t
e
x
t
v
 
@thejonymyster this fact can actually be quite useful in bracket-related golf, because when if you're making a checksum of sorts using the character values, you can choose if you want them to be off by one or two
 
@pxeger oh real shit? thats dope then, nvm my complains
variety owns
 
2:31 PM
@Adám huh, I've never really considered that. (I suppose it doesn't help that they aren't in that order on my any good keyboard)
 
@PyGamer0 Not necessarily, that just makes finding the one you're looking for easier
 
I am of the opinion that ` is the least used key on the keyboard and deserves some love
give ` some love for me
 
` deseres bitter hate and nothing else
Same with ~
We could have useful stuff there, but we got two non-combining accents
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani good lord who hurt you
 
but ~ is useful for drawing squiggles
 
2:33 PM
and estimation
 
@GingerIndustries The American Standards Association
 
` is used all the time in Vyxal
 
I'm on board with hating ` though, although that might just be PTSD from trying to use it in SE chat markdown
 
I think stuff like the plus/minus symbol would be more useful
Degree symbol, that's a big one
 
we have surpassed the limitations of ASCII now anyway, so it really doesn't matter
 
2:35 PM
@taRadvylfsriksushilani CMC: Design a better keyboard
 
British keyboards have ¬ and ¦ IIRC
 
what about £? My inner patriot wants that in the codepage!
 
@pxeger see also: British keyboards
 
@pxeger Also note how ASCII matches an amalgamation of various keyboard layouts:
 
and my inner Remainer wants
 
2:35 PM
I think $ should be dropped from ASCII
 
!"#$%&'()
123456789
 
yeah, I've noticed that before too
 
" as UK, # as US, &() as on Scandinavian keyboards.
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani hey
 
Putting just the US dollar sign in ASCII is weird and US-centric
And there's not room for like twenty more currency symbols
 
2:36 PM
It was originally ¤ for that reason.
 
So I think ¤ should replace $
lol
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani ascii, like a lot of ancient technology that we're still using 20 yrs later, is an American invention
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani samurai'd
 
@pxeger I actually kinda use it as a mnemonic for remembering ASCII
 
@GingerIndustries 0 and 1 and every 8 keypresses is a char
 
2:37 PM
(is it weird that I have most of ASCII memorised?)
 
Every country substituted their own symbol for ¤ but US computers became ubiquitous.
 
@thejonymyster see also: Stack Overflow keyboard
 
nice
@Adám i love currency symbol so so so much
i love you --> ¤ <-- i love you
 
Some fonts put huge spikes on the corneers though and that' ugly
 
2:38 PM
@thejonymyster Yeah, it is nice. Can't way for Dyalog APL to use it. I wrote a blog post about it.
 
:D
link? i wanna reads
 
my vote: replace $ with degree symbol, and replace left shift with £, €, and small left shift
 
any keyboard with properly sized square arrow keys is fine by me
 
Nah, $ with ¤
~ with °
 
"but what about gamers who use left shift?!" I hear you cry (in my fevered imagination)
 
2:39 PM
Degree symbol is def. useful and common.
 
@pxeger Here's me producing it as best I can completely from memory:
 
ive had up and down arrow keys so scrunched together that i cant even play certain games
 
 !"#$%^&'().-,+0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
 
well gaming keyboards are already monstrosities, so just use big left shift on those
 
2:39 PM
@taRadvylfsriksushilani But, markdown!
 
(Actually, ` with ° and ~ with ±)
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani nobody uses ± mate
 
i use plusorminus
 
@Adám Obv. this would break literally everything so it's not really a change I'd actually like to occur :p
 
keycaps with different heights based on how often theyre used
 
2:40 PM
But if I could've designed it different from the start
 
@GingerIndustries Right, ∓ is superior.
 
That has a different meaning though
 
@Adám ಠ_ಠ
 
@pxeger my only mistake was that .-,+ should be *+,-.
How could I forget *
 
2:41 PM
@GingerIndustries speaking of, we need that symbol on our tnb keyboard
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani what about ‽ Surely it's more useful than ±
 
@pxeger But do you remember the first 32?
 
some keyboards have weird dedicated right-click key, move that to FN+rshift and add ~ in its place
 
can we replace bell with something useful?
 
2:42 PM
You and Adám are the only people I've ever seen use an interrobang
 
@pxeger Surely ± and ‽ are ± equally useful‽
 
@thejonymyster Bell is useful
Look at all the other weird C0 stuff
And bell is what you want to discard?
 
(is bell actually useful?)
 
@Adám well, they're close, maybe ± 2 points
 
Really‽
 
2:43 PM
@taRadvylfsriksushilani this guy did not hang out on the cuil theory wikia forum thing
 
@Adám Null ... Bell Backspace HorizontalTab LineFeed VerticalTab FormFeed CarriageReturn, ... DeviceControl1 DeviceControl2 DeviceControl3 DeviceControl4 ... Escape ... [Space, ...]
 
neither did i but i sure did make an account and shitpost there since anyone could make any page and there was no moderation
 
Look at C0...SOH, SOT, ACK, DCE, SI, SO, RS, blah blah blah, so much useless C0 stuff
 
FN doesn't do much, add FN-symbols to the 0-9 keys so we can have extra stuff
 
theres a few redundant looking "end of..." bytes
 
2:44 PM
My keyboard doesn't have an FN key
 
@pxeger god help you
 
we need a keyboard that is all modifiers except for one key
 
@GingerIndustries Mine doesn't either
(then again I'm on a chromebook)
 
that way you have access to 2^n chars where n is the number of modifier keys
 
(and I think technically Search+N is Fn-N, but I've never had to use it)
 
2:45 PM
 
Jan 5 at 16:46, by pxeger
Or if you have 104 fingers and 104-key rollover can use 103 keys as modifiers, then log_{2**104}(2**64) < 1 keystrokes
you can do that with a normal keyboard, I think
 
@pxeger conclusion: make every key the size of the FN keys
 
@pxeger You got the device controls wrong. That's Unicode, not ASCII. ASCII has FS, GS, RS, US in those positions.
 
oh so unicode Did replace some of those? good i think
 
@Adám man 1 ascii is where I learnt it from, and it has DC1..DC4 and FS/GS/RS/US
or did you mean FS/GS/RS/US moved?
 
2:48 PM
No, sorry, I misread your message, you're good.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

FmbalbuenaMove to Right and left Task Your task is to Move Right and left. If the numbers combine, sum. Example [1, 2] /\ /\ / X \ [1, 2, 1, 2] Another example [1, 2, 3] /\ /\ /\ / X X \ [1, 2,\/ \ \ 4, 2, 3] Test cases [1,2,3] => [1,2,4,2,3] [4,2] => [4,2,4,2] [1] => [1,0,1]...

 
^ Any feedback?
@Adám Do you understand ^?
 
Knows what?
 
> ASCII-code order is also called ASCIIbetical order.[31]
 
I'd like to see that [31] please
 
2:49 PM
Why is there no ASCII character?
 
knock knock
 
Who's there?
 
scroll lock is garbage and should be replaced with something else
 
scroll lock is garbage and should be replaced with something else who?
4
 
@pxeger ASCII
 
2:50 PM
Or actually used.
 
Such reliable source, very wow
 
ah yes, humor
 
☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼
 
@Adám Encyclopedia
 
2:51 PM
**
Encyclopedia
 
**E**ncyclop[a]edia
 
recyclepedia would be a good name. someone right that dwom
 
already exists
 
good lord
 
Cyclopedia would be good for a wiki about bikes.
4
 
2:52 PM
@pxeger Britannica
 
calliopedia
 
@Fmbalbuena This is getting spammy again
 
or a wiki about cyclopes
 
Encyclopsedia
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani sorry
 
2:53 PM
(TIL the plural of "cyclops" is "cyclopes")
 
EncylopÆdia
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani Don't you mean ○|? :P
 
∙|
 
2:54 PM
XD: A dead cyclops
 
∙)
 
let's not just fill the room up with meaningless symbols again
 
happy cyclops: ∙-)
 
I've always thought of cyclops as having bigger eyes
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani he died doing what he loved i guess
 
2:55 PM
@Adám o|
 
@Adám looks like a satellite icon
 
Having just one eye?
 
cyclops rockin idk
XD just looks happy yknow
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani You look like cyclop.
 
owned
 
Damn, gottem
 
to me XD looks like a mario fishbones
 
what is this chatroom lol
3
 
@pxeger omg true
 
@PyGamer0 This is for cyclopes.
 
2:55 PM
i should probably go study for my exam tomorrow
 
wait that reminds me someone should make a game out of like wingdings and dingbats n webdings fonts
it would be very cute i thinks
 
@thejonymyster todo: this
 
a lot of them are satisfyingly square
 
CMC: Given an ASCII character (as character/string/number/hex/…) in the range 0–31, return its 2/3-character code.
E.g. 27 → ESC and 8 → BS
 
i wonder if theres any way to do it that isnt just a hash table
that would make an interesting builtin for a silly language
 
2:58 PM
Maybe you can print it and OCR that?
@Fmbalbuena Uh, the URL kind of gives it away.
 
i did not read the url Y_Y
i have fallen in battle
 

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