The Nineteenth Byte

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Seggan

00:27

@Simd if you think about it really hard the last person has a slightly higher chance of not getting kicked out but its marginal

Neil

00:39

@Simd no, the fact that A, B, C and D will have picked buttons first doesn't change E's expectation of a bad button. of course, if you reveal their buttons first then E will have a different expectation from his choice but his expected expectation is still 5%

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emanresu A

06:21

@RydwolfPrograms There are good reasons to allow some small amount of leeway - precise timing or floating point imprecision generally

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The Empty String Photographer

08:13

Guys, the layout changed for chat, at least on mobile.

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Stef

12:00

Hi! I posted a new challenge in the sandbox: Write the date in abbreviated Latin

mousetail

12:10

So the BOM is 2 bytes but decodes as 0 characters. So you could encode unary as only using BOM bytesequences you can write any arbitrary program using 0 chars

Sandbox Posts

12:57

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

code-golf number natural-language Read a French number We have Spell out numbers in French, Translate numbers to French and Telling time in French, but we were missing the reverse: Challenge Read a French expression, and output the corresponding integer. Input In true French, a French number expr...

mousetail

We don't really need challenges to write numbers in every possible language

lyxal

One universal translation challenge: take language and number and print

Close all further challenges as dupes :p

Stef

@mousetail This is not about writing, it's about reading

mousetail

It's the same thing

There are not bad in principle we just have so many of them already and they are all basically the same

lyxal

If you can write, you can easily read through brute force

mousetail

13:03

Vyxal probably has a builtin for converting a read function to a write function by brute force

lyxal

You mean the other way around?

Stef

okay, what about writing the date in latin? this one definitely doesn't work like a normal number system

lyxal

@mousetail There's a "write English number" built in which can be hooked up to a "find first number where condition true" function if that's what you mean

@Stef that's definitely different yes

mousetail

It's also basically the same

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caird coinheringaahin g

16:05

Any final feedback? Ideally, I'd like to get a couple interesting test cases, but they're hard to construct

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Rydwolf Programs

17:31

@emanresuA But allowing a specific amount of leeway just makes it annoying; it's super hard to prove the float imprecision will be above or below that amount

We usually just assume float imprecision is nonexistent

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