The Nineteenth Byte

12:00 AM

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Even that shows it is negative.

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Output function from one to another I tried to post this twice and I gained negative feedback, so I will put what I have in mind here if anyone is interested. Get a certain output function from one programming language and transfer to another. You'll be recreating an output function that came f...

Original Original Original VI

@MarkGiraffe You have downvotes in the Sandbox? That just means you should fix whatever people pointed out is wrong with your question

Mark Giraffe

Well, it mentions it must have an object winning criterion.

Sadly, I never thought of some sort.

I can't really post it then.

Original Original Original VI

It's a bit unclear what you want to do there, which is probably why someone downvoted it. Do you mean you want to translate code from one language to another?

Mark Giraffe

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI No. Make the same function using a different language.

Original Original Original VI

I'd recommend just code-golf, it's what most challenges use as their scoring criterion.

Could you give an example of what an answer would look like in your draft?

Mark Giraffe

12:04 AM

I don't what I would describe for code-golf if I want to make some output function. Not sure if it will work out.

AN example?

Original Original Original VI

Yeah

Mark Giraffe

def printf(text, *args):
    print(text % args)

Original Original Original VI

Oh, I see

Bubbler

You can add your example answer into the challenge, with a header (like a typical code golf answer)

Original Original Original VI

Not to discourage you, but it looks like that could be very easily done in two languages that use the same name for printf or whatever

Bubbler

12:07 AM

But one problem with your challenge is that many languages don't have functions, and many languages have conflicting identifier rules

Mark Giraffe

Another thing that I should point out is that the function to be made must be completely different than the original.

Original Original Original VI

Also, you may want to clarify that the output function has to print to STDOUT (or a file or STDERR). I initially didn't understand what "output function" meant.

Mark Giraffe

So no print that's similar to each other.

Original Original Original VI

@MarkGiraffe I guess saying the source code must be different would be an observable requirement.

Mark Giraffe

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I guess that's how I should've explained it.

Bubbler

12:08 AM

@MarkGiraffe That's a very arbitrary rule. How similar is too similar?

Original Original Original VI

But how would I implement do APL and C? APL usee ⎕←'foobar' to print 'foobar'. There's no similar syntax in C

Bubbler

I agree with ^. The challenge assumes some common aspects across languages, where there's actually none.

Mark Giraffe

Then in conclusion: The challenge is unacceptable to certain points and the guidelines for Code Golf SE's challenges.

Bubbler

Yeah, sort of.

Maybe you can find a better challenge idea if you try solving existing challenges on our site.

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Riffle shuffle two arrays code-golfarray-manipulation Take two arrays and evenly riffle shuffle them together. Process: Take the first items of each and add them to the array in order. Input 1: [5,6,7] Input 2: [8,9] Output: [5,8] Then the second Input 1: [5,6,7] Input 2: [8,9] Output: [5,8,6,9]...

xnor

3:10 AM

@flawr would be happy to get an invite

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6:28 AM

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Q: Are Unicode friendly golfing languages using the right byte count?

This is probably a misunderstanding/misinterpretation on my part, but, does Unicode friendly golfing languages use the right byte count? As example, this answer is said to be 17 byte but if i copy paste the byte used on a Nix* system like so: echo -n "😍😃💁🧟🤯😃😧😍😄🤶🙆🙆😬🏃🧛😧🤠" | wc -c ...

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Wasif

8:36 AM

@rak1507 it is documented in my math text book like this

flawr

8:51 AM

@xnor it seems you've already found it:)

xnor

9:28 AM

@flawr oh that one

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10:06 AM

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Q: Inverse Ax+B/Cx+D sized function

Let's assume that $$ f(x) = \frac{Ax+B}{Cx+D} $$ Where, \$x\$ is a variable and \$A\$,\$B\$,\$C\$,\$D\$ are constants. Now we have to find out the inverse function of \$f(x)\$, mathematically \$f^-1(x)\$, To do this first we assume, $$ y = f(x) \\\rightarrow y=\frac{Ax+B}{Cx+D} \\\rightarrow Cxy+...

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rak1507

11:14 AM

@Wasif good thing the authors weren't writing a challenge then, as it would have been closed

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