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Given two positive integers, 'a' and 'b', output an ascii-art "box" that is a characters wide and b characters tall. For example, with '4' and '6':
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Simple right? Here's the twist: The border of the box must be the characters of "a" and "b" alternating. This starts...
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Write a program or function that takes in a 4×4 text grid consisting of exactly 4 A's, 4 B's, 4 C's, and 4 D's, such as:
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The ABCD's may be in any arrangement but there will always be 4 of each. You can assume the input is valid. If desired you can also assume it has a trail...Anonymous
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Shrek is an animated movie based upon William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book called Shrek!. The name Shrek likely comes from the Yiddish word שרעק (pronounced Shreck) or the German word Schreck. Both words mean "fear" or "terror". It was directed by Andrew Adamson and animated by DreamWorks Animation SKG from 1998-2001. It was the first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001 . It was released on DVD on November 2, 2001. There have also been three sequels (follow-ups) of Shrek, called Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third and "Shrek, forever after."
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Fucking Hell is a German Pilsner or pale lager. It is named after the village of Fucking in Austria. The beer's name (which also plays on hell, the German word for 'pale' and a typical description of this kind of beer) was initially controversial. Both the local authorities in Fucking and the European Union's Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office initially objected to the name. It was eventually accepted and the lager is now sold internationally.
Fucking Hell is a Pilsner with an alcohol content of 4.9%. The beer is not brewed in Fucking, and at the time of its launch the village had no brewery...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (pronounced [ɬanˌvair puɬˈɡwɨ̞nɡɨ̞ɬ]) is a large village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales, situated on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor. It is alternatively known as Llanfairpwll, Llanfair PG, or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
At the 2001 census, the population of the community was 3,040, 76% of whom spoke Welsh fluently; the highest percentage of speakers were in the 10–14 age group, where 97.1% spoke Welsh. By the time of the 2011 Census the population...
Batman (Kurdish: Êlih) is a city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey and the capital of Batman Province. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters (1,772 feet) above sea level, near the confluence of the Batman River and the Tigris. The Batı Raman oil field, which is the largest oil field in Turkey, is located just outside the city. Batman has a local airport and a military airbase, which was used for transit of aircraft and helicopters in some search and rescue operations of the Gulf War.
Until the 1950s, Batman was a village, called Iluh, with a population of about 3,000. However, oil fields...
Recently, I was introduced to a puzzle game known as Solitaire Chess. I'll summarize the rules here:
The board is a 4x4 checkerboard.
All pieces are the same color (no teams) and all pieces can capture any other piece.
Every move must be a capture. No moving to empty squares.
There must be exac...6
Some words are taboo; we sometimes refer to them with names like "the F-word" or "the A-word", or even (oh, my!) "the C-word", because we know that they have some potential for offense regardless of context, and if we're polite, we want to avoid violating the taboo ourselves.
Fricking ranks much...
Produce a Random Animated GIF
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It's GIF with a hard G, BTW
Challenge
You must write a programmer which produces a random animated gif.
Specification
The GIF must be 256 pixels by 256 pixels in dimension, must have a frame rate of 20 frames per second and should last for five second...
The Stern-Brocot sequence is a Fibonnaci-like sequence which can be constructed as follows:
Initialise the sequence with s(1) = s(2) = 1
Set counter n = 1
Append s(n) + s(n+1) to the sequence
Append s(n+1) to the sequence
Increment n, return to step 3
This is equivalent to:
Amongst other p...
