Loopless unending program
Your task is simple: Make a program in your language of choice that never exits. However, you are forbidden to use any looping constructs (for, while, etc). in your source. You may use any other instruction in your language to accomplish this goal.
This is code-golf, so ...
@l4m2 If you mean the choice of a starting point within the program, it seems to currently be treated as free. If you are referring to a choice of absolute address, I am not aware of any precedent.
Time Complexity
Using performance measures carried out on the execution time of the programs for a new computer, your mission is to determine what's the most likely computational complexity from a family of fixed and known algorithmic complexities.
Example
Here is an example of performance measur...
It's not stupid, because NaN is, in a sense, a number. You derive NaN from a series of operations involving numbers, so it would make sense that it's also a number.
but then again, I'm one of the most aggressive JS defenders, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
If anybody wants to try out a rough first draft example of Descend, there's now a repo. There's no implementation yet, but there's an example markdown file, as well as an example html file where I converted the markdown to html by hand
Generate all groupings code-golf array combinatorics
Let's define a grouping as a flat list, which is either:
just 0
2 groupings followed by the literal integer 2
3 groupings followed by 3
4 groupings followed by 4
etc. (for all integers \$ \ge 2 \$)
Note that 1 is not included in this definiti...
Score a curling end
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Score a curling end
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Curling is a sport where two teams aim to place stones as close to the centre of a target as possible. The winner of a curling end is the team whose stone is closest to the centre – they score as many points as the number of their stones closer to the cen...
Turning still trivially allows you to do it, but ramming a wall with the corner of your tank no longer causes a floating point issue that lets you drive backwards and get pushed through the wall
@StackMeterPlus If you drive at an angle to the wall, when the corner of your tank hit the wall, due to a floating point issue it would sometimes get stuck in the wall by just a tiny bit. It tries to push you out of the wall by reversing your movement, so if you switch to driving backwards at just the right moment, it'll push you further into the wall
Today I realized that since all of the tests in my chemistry class are multiple choice, I don't have to frick with like...1.008 and 15.999 as the molar mass of stuff, I can just round and find the closest answer choice
i think that i was worried people would restrict the input in a way that makes the challenge trivial, like a loophole, but there need to be infinite outputs, so i dont think it will be an issue
I'll post it when im not at work, unless someone in here sees fit to interject
or wait is it "object" in that context
ill edit and leave it in the sandbox, and if nobody says its bad ill post :)
@hyper-neutrino Sorry to bother you a second time for the same room, but could you unfreeze the RTO/OISB room again? (I'll do a better job of keeping it unfrozen this time)