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Shape of an array

Given a non-ragged array (an array where all sub-arrays at a particular level have the same length) of non-negative integers, answer its shape, that is, the length along every dimension. You may as...

6 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Adám‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by south‭

code-golf
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Stairs? Stairs! Stairs.

Challenge Make a program that takes input of an integer that's $n > 1$ and print out a staircase using a specific character for stair basing (hashes (#) for demonstration; you can use spaces,...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf ascii-art string
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Operation "Find The Operator"

Challenge Make a program that takes input of 3 non-negative integers: a result and 2 other values that once calculated results to the 3rd value. The program must figure out how to get the 2 fir...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf math number
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Diagonalized alphabet

Task Print the following: ABDFHJLNPRTVXZ CABDFHJLNPRTVX ECABDFHJLNPRTV GECABDFHJLNPRT IGECABDFHJLNPR KIGECABDFHJLNP MKIGECABDFHJLN OMKIGECABDFHJL QOMKIGECABDFHJ SQOMKIGECABDFH USQOMKIGE...

7 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity ascii-art alphabet
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Evaluate a single variable polynomial equation

Challenge Given a list of n numbers and x, compute $a + bx^1 + cx^{2} + ... + zx^{n-1}$, where a is the first value in the list, b is the second, etc. n is at most 256 and at least 0. The input va...

20 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by moony‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by south‭

code-golf math
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Given the preorder and the inorder of a tree, output the postorder

Definitions A binary tree is either a null (leaf), or an object (node). A node contains a value (non-negative integer) and two pointers (left and right) to two separate binary trees. A binary tre...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Hakerh400‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf
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Prime Difference

Given an integer n, output the smallest prime such that the difference between it and the next prime is at least n. For example, if n=5, you would output 23, since the next prime is 29, and 29-23&...

8 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf
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Weave Strings Together

Given a list of strings(and optionally, their length) as input, weave the strings together. Intro Your goal is to mimic the WV operator in Pip. Take a list of strings and alternate between their ...

13 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf string
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Merge two strings

Challenge Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b. (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 ) Exam...

8 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by rak1507‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf
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Coat of Many Colours

Challenge Given a list of unique colour names as input, sort them in the order that they first appear in Joseph's Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Example Input: green, blue, red, brown Outpu...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Shaggy‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf array-manipulation
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Repeat the characters

Given a string and a non-negative integer $n$, output a new string in which each character is repeated $n$ times. Test cases: "abc", 1 -> "abc" "Hello", 0 -> "" "double", 2 -> "ddo...

14 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by south‭

code-golf string
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Make my number a set

Natural to set (set meaning an unordered collection with no duplicates, though answers may use and output lists instead) Recently I was brainstorming what a language with only (arbitrarily nested...

10 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Wezl‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf number
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Bytes to Segfault

Challenge Cause the currently running program to receive the SIGSEGV signal (on Linux or other *nix systems) as fast as possible. What it does with the signal doesn't matter as long as it receives...

10 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by moony‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf *nix
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Generalized Sort

Challenge We all know and love the generic sort function, right? However, it only sorts based off one criterion - what if we want more? That's where you come in. Your task is to sort an array bas...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf sorting
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Golf golf challenge

The task is to create a program which displays a golf score as text. It takes 2 numbers as input, separated by space or new line: The first number is the par of the specific hole. The second nu...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

code-golf
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Implement Rule 110

[Rule 110] is a Turing complete cellular automaton. It is defined as follows: Take as initial value a sequence of symbols that's infinite to both sides, which consists only of two different symbol...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Tiny Turing-completeness

Your challenge today is to golf a program to interpret something Turing-complete. You may use any Turing-complete system for this so long as it is not the source language of the challenge - even a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by AndrewTheCodegolfer‭  ·  edited 3y ago by AndrewTheCodegolfer‭

code-golf turing-complete
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99 Shortened Bottles of Beer

Disclaimer This challenge also exists in CGCC, but if you want to compete here (too), then hop in! Challenge Recreate "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", using the least bytes possible. Lyrics: ...

13 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Caesar shift cipher

Introduction What is the Caesar shift cipher (ROT$n$)? It's basically a cipher sequence that changes a letter's value from the number chosen. If we use ROT1 on "games", we get "hbnft". The basic i...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf string sequence encryption decryption
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Run-length encode a byte sequence

Run-length encoding is a simple compression technique which compresses sequences of repeating identical bytes. The encoding rules for this task are as follows: Any sequence of $n$ identical bytes...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

code-golf encoding
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Convert integer to English

Given a non-negative integer up to $999\,999\,999$, write it in English. The input number can be in any form other than English (though you'll typically want to use the native integer type of your...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

code-golf number string
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Find good coalitions

As you might know, there were elections in Germany, and now the parties have to form a government coalition. Let's help them with it! A good coalition has the strict majority of seats (that is, mo...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

code-golf
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Truthify an array

Jelly has an atom called untruth, which when given indices, creates an array with 1s at those places: [2,4] → [0,1,0,1]. You are required to perform the inverse of this. Given a 2D boolean array, ...

10 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf boolean array-manipulation
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Obligatory Quine Challenge

Rules Using your language of choice, golf a quine. A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. No cheating -- ...

9 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by ATaco‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf quine
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Encode and decode floating point integers

Imagine you have only one byte (8 bits) to store a value, but need to store values from $0$ to $4032$. Impossible, until you are also told that an error of 1/64 of the exact value does not matter. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf number
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Define a mathematical expression in English

Background Inspired by this challenge that is also a mathematical English translator. Challenge Write a program that translates a mathematical expression using English with the following specifi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf math string
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Recreate the Stack Overflow logo

Originally from Somewhere Else. I thought I'd continue making more drawing challenges here now that I discovered it. Make the Stack Overflow logo using the following criteria: The tray: ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Anonymous‭

code-golf graphical-output
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The Ludic Numbers

The Ludic Numbers are a sequence that pops up when you apply the sieve of eratosthenes to the natural numbers, completely removing the numbers every iteration. Here is how they are generated: The...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf sequence
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Decode periodic decimal fractions

Rational numbers in decimal representation can have an infinite periodic part. One common way to write this down is to repeat the periodic digits and then add three dots. Numbers without those thre...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf number parsing
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Reverse your quine

Challenge Write a program that prints its reversed self. For example, if your code is foo() Then it'll output: )(oof Make sure that the quine is a valid one, as defined here: No cheatin...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by celtschk‭

code-golf quine
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Abbreviate everything

Challenge Make a program that takes input of a string and abbreviate it. All letters of an abbreviation are capitalized, so keep that in mind. Whitespace, numbers and non-English characters ar...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Hakerh400‭

code-golf string
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Create an Alphabet Diamond

Challenge Output the following text: A ABA ABCBA ABCDCBA ABCDEDCBA ...

11 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dzaima‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity
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Getting perfect squares, differently

Create a program that gets all perfect squares starting from 0 or 1 without using any methods of multiplication (repetitive addition) and exponentiation (repetitive multiplication). Output them for...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf math number restricted-source
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When The Ternary Is Balance

Inspired by this Rosetta Code article. Introduction Balanced Ternary is a method of representing integers using -1, 0 and 1 in base 3. Decimal 11 = (1 * 32) + (1 * 31) + (−1 * 30) = [1,1,-1] or ...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

code-golf number base
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My house is destroyed! Can you make me one?

Background A House of I I went on an adventure Grabbed resources and making deeds Like start to work on the materials To build the shelter I need It was a marvelous one At least in the eyes ...

10 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quintec‭

code-golf string
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Output 256 in many different ways

Challenge Write as many functions, programs, or snippets of code, that result in 256. Your score is the number of separate solutions submitted in an answer. The challenge? The characters used in ...

12 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dzaima‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by snail_‭

alternative-scoring restricted-source highest-score
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In The Jailhouse Now

Challenge Given an integer n>=4 as input create an ASCII art "prison door"* measuring n-1 characters wide and n characters high, using the symbols from the example below. Example ╔╦╗ ╠╬╣ ...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Shaggy‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by snail_‭

code-golf ascii-art
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Tile pyramids on top of each other!

The task Given a positive integer as input, output tiled pyramids of this height. How? Let's say the inputted integer was n. From there, we output n lines of output, each having: A decreasing...

9 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Dion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by emanresu A‭

code-golf ascii-art
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Multiply two strings

Given two strings, I define their product as follows: If any of the two strings is empty, the product is the empty string. If the second string consists of a single character, the result ...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Hakerh400‭

code-golf string
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Generate Lewis Caroll's Jabberwocky

The task is to generate the text of Lewis Caroll's Jabberwocky. The text, quoted from Wikipedia, is as follows (I've replaced a non-ASCII character with ASCII, otherwise it's direct copy&paste...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity
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Beaver Code Decryption

Credit This challenge is taken with permission from https://www.mysterytwisterc3.org/en/challenges/level-1/beaver-code Description The encryption method is as follows: The plaintext is divided ...

6 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by rak1507‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Shaggy‭

code-golf encryption decryption
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Ratio limits of fibonacci-like series

Definition $F_{n}\left(0\right)=0$ $F_{n}\left(1\right)=1$ $F_{n}\left(x\right)=n\cdot F_{n}\left(x-1\right)+F_{n}\left(x-2\right)$ For example: $F_{1}=\left[0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89...\ri...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by rak1507‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf sequence
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A chunk of symbols is a calculation

Challenge Create a program that takes input of a string and outputs an integer using the following calculation system: The string can only contain +, -, *, /, ^, ! (or a different character; ! ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf math sequence decryption array-manipulation
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Is it a near-anagram?

Two words are anagrams of each other if the letters of one can be reordered to spell the other; e.g. ADOBE and ABODE are anagrams. An alternate way of describing it is that both words contain the s...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by snail_‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf string
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Longest Increasing Subsequence

Given an array of numbers, output the length of the longest increasing (not necessarily contiguous) subsequence. It is guaranteed that there are no duplicates in the array. For example, if the inpu...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf
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Win a War (or at least a few battles)

You have an army of size $n$ that you need to split up to fight $k$ battles simultaneously against an opposing army $A$. In each battle, the army with the most troops present wins - no one wins a t...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf optimization
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The Camelot Wheel

Given a musical key, output its number and letter on the Camelot Wheel (shown below). Input A musical key as a string, as shown on the wheel. The words "Sharp" and "Flat" may be replaced with s...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf
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Juggler sequences

A Juggler sequence is a sequence that begins with a positive integer $a_0$ and each subsequent term is calculated as: $$a_{k+1} = \begin{cases} \left \lfloor a_k ^ \frac 1 2 \right \rfloor, &...

9 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by caird coinheringaahing‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Shaggy‭

code-golf math number sequence
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Golf me a polygonal loader

CGCC Sandbox, Codidact Sandbox Given three positive integers as input, animate an ascii-art polygonal loading symbol on the screen. Intro Using the first input $n$, Take one the following regul...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf ascii-art animation
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Towering Cistercian Representation

SE Sandbox Link, Codidact Sandbox Link Inspired by this video. Given a positive integer, draw its Cistercian representation as ascii art. The Challenge Cistercian numerals are a decimal-based...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

code-golf ascii-art