Write a Visual Basic program that accepts five integers, and for each integer following the first, prints “GREATER” or “LESS” depending on whether or not the current integer is greater than the previous one. At the end your application will let the user know the largest and the smallest of the fi...
Find the longest streak of Fibonacci numbers on the Ulam spiral
Fibonacci numbers
Fibonacci numbers are a sequence where each element is the sum of the previous two elements. In the original Fibonacci sequence, the first two number are 1. So the sequence goes: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, .... For t...
The challenge is to write a simple chatbot which can complete the curr_conv (current-conversation) with the help of a collection of conversations, all_conv. Both curr_conv and all_conv are array of downcased English words.
Procedure
To complete the curr_conv, the bot should find a conversation fr...
A similar idea, weekly topic contests
There exists a similar idea which has been tried multiple times across the stackexchange network. Here is a post on mother meta describing it.
An "implementation" of this idea can be found in this post on the puzzling.stackexchange meta (which is actually ...
TLDR: Sort your input according to a new English alphabet somewhat based on Chinese stroke count methods.
Background: In a Chinese glossary/index, finding terms that are contained within the book is different from English because Chinese doesn't have an alphabet like English, instead they are sor...
Introduction
In front of us, we see a random amount of cubes. Each cube weighs the same, except for one. By using a balance scale, we can compare each cube, to see which cube is the anomaly.
Example
Consider this random input: Y Y Y X Y Y
Simply by looking, the anomaly in this input is the X, bec...
