Jonathan Allan

Let's keep it going ...you can even cast a tuple to stdout (print) (1, 2, 3)

I think I'm too used to using dynamically typed languages to even consider "casting" as specific to static langs :D:D (well I'll tell myself that for now...)

I had no idea it was a joke, now I understand Ginger :)

woosh

@lyxal I think because float is a class and that's how its constructer works, so you're calling its __init__

TIO

@lyxal It's not that the syntax is specifically for typecasting, it's just that parentheses may be used in redundant, matching pairs. Also spaces after the first character of a line may be included redundantly. This can be useful for formatting code across multiple lines. The only use actually suggested in PEP-8 is for tuples of one element (e.g. instead of x=7, one should write x=(7,)).

@NewPosts @Simd I suppose I could have posted: Jelly 2 bytes, ạ2. :p

@mathcat ^^

@graffe hehe, but then we ... err as Wezl' says

So frustrating when you take ages over a question then the first vote is down with no feedback :(

Not sandboxed, but I think it's clear (although Question Six itself is obviously fairly confusing). Any suggestions to make it clearer very much welcomed!

Makes sense

hmm

Ahha it must be comparing the newline characters in Windows but not Linux?

I think it must be the map somehow

This is the program in the post :)

consistency FTW

Ahha

I don't get it :p

in cmd running python test.py

literally adding an x to the end makes it work :/

@Steffan nope, that does not work, but typing \n at the end of the second line does (facepalm). EDIT or indeed an x :/

@Steffan Tried that but it produced no output for me, while the double use with no newline worked.

Windows seems to need CtrlZ <return> CtrlZ <return> - :/ :o

@loopywalt Oh yeah, I always wondered - how does that know when to stop taking input? Is it EOF?

@Neil thanks, I got there in the end :p (many edits)

929 max(m)!=min(m) -> max(m)>min(m) >.< TIO

934 outputting to STDERR (with exit) TIO

941 - TIO

Little better score TIO

Oh, might as well use m again not a :) TIO

This will work TIO

6 4 is still giving results though

Some of that complexity is to get the score down though :)

But after that, I keep columns that: (a) have more than one occurrence of their maximum; (b) have their maximum at the start; and (c) are not just a list of equal values. (Then I deduplicate each).

This TIO gets the same thing as my code x⁹Sḃ³Ṛḷ/)ƬR1¦

, costs 8, = costs 7, newline costs 1. So <>,<>=<>,<> costs 23 points while <>=<>\n<>=<> costs only 15 (where all the <> would then be added to the total for both).

It does not seem to work for m=6 and n=4, I believe it never exits the while. Is that because there are no non-singular cycles? Perhaps we should ask if cycles are guaranteed / we can do anything if none exist?

OK, there are two bugs. Here's a fix for the while loop TIO but you need to cater for "trajectories" that terminate on the same loop (e.g. when m=6 and n=4 there are no non-singular cycles - we have 1->4->4, 3->6->6, and 5->2->2 all ending in length one cycles).

I don't think you use your R function. You should get rid of whitespace and try to use names of IRdmv (these score only 1) for the five most common variables/functions, then AJSenw (which score 2) if you need more (don't forget you may be able to re-use a variable name in list comprehensions or after you're done with one too).

Also the , separated assignments cost more than newline-separated ones.

Maybe someone else will take a look and see what's up. Thanks @ChartZBelatedly

but not confident in that enough to post

Maybe I've got it right and the rest is just so inefficient it's taking 1000 times as long as JS etc...

yeah it's hard :p

...I /think/ !