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Q: Find all a, b, c, d, e, such that a + b + c + d + e = 1000 with no more than 3 loops

chau giangThe rule is: a, b, c, d, e is an integer from 0 to 1000, no relation between a, b, c, d, e so a can equal to b or c, ... can not use more than 3 loops (it can be 3 nested loops or 3 normal loops, or 2 nested loops + 1 normal loop, ...) you need to find all the answers for (a, b, c, d, e) that i...

 
 
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8:45 AM
@NewMainPosts Does it matter that my solution requires about a petabyte of RAM? Nah…
 
I'm struggling to understand the requirements of codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/187434/… since the definition really requires infinite-information inputs to meaningful
Can I just define a strongly Darbuox function that happens to be 0 for all rational numbers?
And the program does not support irrational inputs, so I can simply output 0.
 
9:15 AM
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Q: Integer Lists of Noah

Kevin CruijssenIntroduction: I think we've all heard of it, but here a very brief summary: Noah gathered two of every species of animal on the planet, male and female, to save in his Ark during a great flood. The actual quote from the Bible is: Genesis 7:2-3 You must take with you seven of every kind of ...

 
 
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11:21 AM
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Q: New badges for new design

valThere's an old (2014y) conversation about this: Let's design a nice badge icon!, but without any real outcome. However, quite recently we got a new site design, including our new logo: For me it looks like pretty good candidate for badge icon, because, you know, it's a medal. Possible modific...

 
 
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1:00 PM
@NewMainPosts Didn't we have a challenge on like, smoothing a mountain or something like that, that was similar to this?
 
1:45 PM
Ha ha, forgetting core features.
 
2:03 PM
@feersum As it stands I think you are correct.
You can talk about Darboux and strongly Darboux functions from \$\mathbb{Q}\mapsto\mathbb{Q}\$, or any other toplogies but the question is explicitly about real numbers
 
Q sure would have been a lot more congenial.
 
Well I think we ought to ask doorknob
 
I would have, but not pingable.
 
or if you are feeling devious just post f x=0
Oh I meant leave a comment on the question
So reading it very carefully I am seeing two ways to read the question, one makes it provably impossible and one makes it trivial.
 
@DJMcMayhem Thanks for your bajillion bytes little bit of snark. ;-)
 
2:22 PM
Heheh
I wrote that for your benefit :P
 
It's only a bajillion bytes when doing extremely complicated stuff like squaring numbers :^)
 
@SriotchilismO'Zaic Looks like the comment immediately above yours already pointed out the same issue...
 
It was a little weird, I wasn't sure exactly what it was trying to say
 
 
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3:43 PM
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Q: Can I change the version of the language in my answer (Python 3 to 2), or do I post a new answer?

MaxwellI wrote a Python 3 answer. I called it Python 3 in the title; however, it works equally well in Python 2. I discovered that I am able to remove several bytes from the answer, but only if I use Python 2 instead of 3. Is it acceptable to change the answer from Python 3 to Python 2, or should I post...

 
3:58 PM
Hey, TNB: Does the string ( ?@Nbgk x¨¾ÃÐÕã÷ øĆĊ ċ ĎďěĨ īĺŏšŴŹ ǣǩ Ǯ˘͵ΖΫΰξρφ look like code in any esolang you know? Doesn't seem to be Jelly or 05AB1E
 
@J.Sallé Looks like mojibake to me.
 
@Adám could be, but it's definitely intentional. I tried analyzing it with ⎕UCS but nothing stood up
 
@J.Sallé The precise number of characters is noteworthy. May be an unusual multi-byte encoding.
 
We also think it might be a sentence, encoded somehow.
 
@J.Sallé to note is that, except space, every character is unique, so the specific characters might not have much of a meaning (or if they do, it's very obscure)
 
4:08 PM
@dzaima that's why I thought it was a program in an esolang at first, before I noticed the whitespace
 
@J.Sallé except in those langs that take the character value and use only the top couple bits, writing with unique chars is usually pretty hard
 
Yeah, that's part of the reasoning to think it's a sentence instead, although sentences would have repeated characters
 
oh also excluding spaces all unicode values are in ascending order
 
4:28 PM
@dzaima that's very helpful
I tried doing something similar but didn't think of using ⎕A, I was trying every unicode codepoint
 
4:46 PM
@J.Sallé hmm, maybe 26| isn't the answer - ?ing everything > 26 gives less incorrectness
 
@dzaima Seems to be a quote from Leo Tolstoy, slightly altered
Is there a way we can fit that into "Wanted movement and a calm course of existence."?
 
the T vs U in the 5th from last here seems to be not matching in any case
 
Weird. Then again, I think every clue from this puzzle has been weird since day 1
 
 
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6:09 PM
@J.Sallé More like Day 7 to be honest
@dzaima Thanks! What does the program do?
 
@MilkyWay90 excludes spaces, gets character unicode values, gets the deltas of consecutive numbers, and gets the nth (1-indexed) character in the alphabet. that also did a %26 but that turns out to be the cause of mistakes in the output (e.g. the v in mvvement and the mess at the end)
 
It also picks from every rotation of the alphabet
Well I guess the latest version doesn't
 
@J.Sallé that part was only for me to find which one was correct, but it turned out that the obvious 1-indexing was correct
 
Yeah, I figured
 
the spaces seem to indicate word lengths in the output, and if the text is prepended with unicode 31 (0x1f) the I also appears in the output as from the quote
 
6:19 PM
The problem is that it's not the exact quote no matter what, because it lacks the "not"
 
ah right, that's also a thing. maybe matters whereever it leads you
 
oh ok
 
Yeah, I hope so. The spaces (plus the UCS 31) further suggest that that's the case
I wonder if there's a way to actually get the spaces right
I believe that'll solve the missing/wrong letters as well
 
My friend thinks that it says "Wanted movement and a calm course? FE sequence."
Fe is Iron
And that was in the electron configuration in the latest suspicious message on randomstuffonline.com
 
Mind you that the question marks aren't actually question marks, only indicators of a missing char
 
6:29 PM
be right back
Prehaps we should continue this in the cicada chatroom
 
Indeed
If any mods want to move the messages from here onwards to this chatroom, please do.
 
7:21 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

bigyihsuanPrint the ends and middle of your code The challenge is simple: Print the first, middle, and last character of your program's source code. The middle character is defined as follows, assuming a source length of n characters, and 1-indexing: If n is even, print the n/2-th and n/2 + 1-th charac...

 
 
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8:42 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Sriotchilism O'Zaicanswer-chaining Make a bigger number Each answer on this question must be a complete program that outputs a positive integer in decimal (trailing newlines are permitted). That number must also be larger than the numbers output by all the valid answers at the time of posting. Scoring Your ans...

 
8:53 PM
I got a stray vote on this challenge today, and got curious... Anyone care to share updated results? I don't have Python or Perl available...
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

gwaughThere's an echo in my array... echo in my array... my array... Help! I seem to have an annoying echo in some of my floating point arrays, and I'd like to get rid of it. When this occurs, the original array repeats itself somewhere in the middle causing the values to be added to each other. Fo...

 
10:03 PM
@StewieGriffin I don't have Python 2, sadly
 
10:43 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

RosLuPOne sqrt function for unsigned not float Write the function sqrti(x) that return the square root of one not negative integer number x, where x has not decimal part, and the result one integer (so truncate to 0 digits). You may not use as function and operation nothing other than floor and sign ...

 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Erik the OutgolferMulti-Digit × Single-Digit Checker code-golf arithmetic Introduction The story below is fictional, don't worry. Times table hard. More curriculum. Class advance. Son behind. Horror. Help. ahem Pardon me. So... I've got a big problem. The times table is huge, and all the mnemonic rules we've ...

 

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