Box (plural: boxes) describes a variety of containers and receptacles for permanent use as storage, or for temporary use, often for transporting contents.
Boxes may be made of durable materials such as wood or metal, or of corrugated fiberboard, paperboard, or other non-durable materials. The size may vary from very small (e.g., a matchbox) to the size of a large appliance. A corrugated box is a very common shipping container. When no specific shape is described, a box of rectangular cross-section with all sides flat may be expected, but a box may have a horizontal cross section that is square...
related and inspired by -- Finding sum-free partitions
A set A is defined here as being distinctly sum-free if
1) it consists of at least three elements, |A| ≥ 3, and
2) its distinct self-sum A + A = { x + y | x, y in A} (with x,y distinct, i.e., x≠y) has no elements in common with A.
Alterna...
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In The Phantom Menace Anakin talks about having a bomb inside of him and should he try to escape Watto can simply blow him up.
SHMI : All slaves have transmitters placed inside their bodies somewhere.
ANAKIN : I've been working on a scanner to try and locate them, but no
luck.
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Mean bits
Given N >= 1, output the mean number of bits in an integer from 0 to N-1
The output should be accurate to at least 8 significant figures.
Sandbox questions
I posted this as a mini-challenge in chat. Would it also work as a real challenge on main?
