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8:13 PM

Hi @Deadcode!

Wow you got a 500 point bounty! At least once:

Regex (ECMAScript+(?*)), 1169 929 887 853 849 bytes Regex was never designed to do mathematics. It has no concept of arithmetic. However, when input is taken in the form of bijective unary, as a sequence of identical characters in which the length represents a natural number, it is possible to d...

Deadcode

Hi @NikeDattani! Yeah, it was a huge honor that get that award from Giuseppe and the people who voted on it for Best Explanation of 2020. I'm trying to live up to that honor now by answering more questions and golfing down my existing ones :) (and, possibly soon, improving my regex engine.)

I visited this room because I was wondering if a moderator can move an answer from one question to another.

Nike Dattani

@Deadcode I don't think that's possible by itself, but the question's can be "merged". There might be something I don't know though, maybe Martin, Tyberius, or Thomas knows more about that: Those are the mods that have been in this room recently.

@Tyberius Any idea about Deadcode's question?

Deadcode

8:34 PM

One way or another, it'd be very helpful to know if that is possible. I accidentally posted a decision-problem answer in a sequence question. I've since then avoided making the same mistake... but now I want to make edits/improvements to that answer. And it doesn't seem right to do that when it's still in the wrong category of question. I'm strongly leaning towards re-asking the question as a decision-problem, which would mean others could then answer it as such too.

But it'd be a shame to have to discard the history of the original post to re-answer it. I'd probably do my best to reconstruct the edit history by posting the original answer, waiting 5 minutes, posting the next edit, etc., but that'd still lose the timestamps of the original edits unless I put them in the edit reasons. And it'd lose the comments.

Nike Dattani

8:52 PM

@Deadcode Interesting. Maybe you can send us a link to the Q/A page to which you're referring?

Deadcode

A: Golf the pseudoprimes!

ECMAScript Regex, 86 89 bytes Warning: Do not read this if you don't want some unary regex magic spoiled for you. If you do want to take a shot at figuring out this magic yourself, I highly recommend starting by solving some problems in ECMAScript regex: see this earlier post for a list of conse...

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Deadcode

11:39 PM

Well, I got my answer. It's not something a mod can do. :(

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