Output the ground-state configutation of an element Background info Electrons repel each other, so in each orientation, there can be at most 2 electrons. Specifically: The s orbital has 1 orientation, so it can be filled with a maximum of 2 electrons. The p orbital has 3 orientations, so it can ...

Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation I've chatted with a few of the users behind this proposal in chat (and internally with other members of the Community Management Team), and while this proposal does seem to have some areas of overlap with existing sites on the SE network, i...

The task here is simple: given a target location on an XY grid, and a rectangle on that grid, find the length of the shortest path from the origin to the target which does not intersect the rectangle. All parameter values are integers. You can assume that neither the target point nor the origin i...

String Concatenation code-golf You are given a string \$s\$ of characters from a to z. Your task is to count how many unique strings of length \$n\$ you can make by concatenating multiple prefixes of the string \$s\$ together. Since the result can be superlative you can either choose to output th...

Creating a golfing language can be hard. Let's help budding golfing language creators out and provide some helpful tips on how to create one. I'm looking for tips on: The design process Implementation Community engagement One tip per answer would be appreciated, and tips like "don't create a ne...

There are to_float or str2float functions written in C, Intelx86, and a number of other languages from before I was born. However, I was wondering how to write a really short str2float function in python. str2float shall be some callable which accepts any one of the following inputs: a string su...