PA-RISC 1.1 machine language on HP-UX 10.20, 53 bytes
00: e8 20 00 00 bl 400010c8 <08>,r1 ; load address of label 08 to %r1
04: 34 1a 00 02 ldi 1,r26 ; branch delay slot, fd=1 to %r26
08: b4 39 00 3a addi 1d,r1,r25 ; pointer to string to %r25
0c: ...
In this challenge you will write a function that takes a list (ordered set) containing real numbers (except for the empty list) and calculates
$$f(x)=\begin{cases}1 & \text{if } |x|=0 \\ x_n+1 & \text{if } |x|=1 \\
\log_{|x|}\sum_{n=1}^{|x|}{|x|}^{x_n} & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}$$
where \$|x|...
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