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Introduction The classic "Hello, World" challenge. What more can I say? Rules Program takes no input. Program outputs Hello, World! with an optional trailing newline. No other output is accep...
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 ...
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...
Print or return this exact text: 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 ...
Given an positive integer $n$, return the least positive integer $k$ such that the $k$th partial sum of the harmonic series is greater than or equal to $n$. For example, if $n = 2$, then $k = 4$, b...
Challenge Given an array of numbers return the cumulative count of each item. This is the number of times an item has occurred so far. Examples [1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,3,3] -> [1,2,1,2,3,3,4,5,1,2]...
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...
Your goal is to reverse an ascii string. Given a (optionally newline or null terminated) input, output your input in reverse order, optionally followed by a newline. Terminate afterward. Function...
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 ...
Challenge idea taken from: Eliseo D'Annunzio Task Provide code that evaluates to 0.5 numerically, i.e. the output must be recognized by your chosen language as a numeric value (Number, float, dou...
Challenge A catalogue type challenge that simply asks: Given an integer n (where n>=0) as input return a truthy value if n is a perfect square or a falsey value if not. Rules You may take...
Challenge Output the following text: A ABA ABCBA ABCDCBA ABCDEDCBA ...
Challenge Given a list of integers >= 0 , check if all of them are equal. Tests [1,1,1,1,1] -> true [0,1,1,6,7] -> false [1] -> true [] -> undefined(you do n...
The task Output the first 100 elements of the infamous FizzBuzz sequence. How? The FizzBuzz sequence is the sequence of decimal integers from 1 to 100 inclusive, but: If the integer is divisi...
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 -- ...
Heavily based on this closed challenge from SE. Description A Sumac sequence starts with two non-zero integers $t_1$ and $t_2.$ The next term, $t_3 = t_1 - t_2$ More generally, $t_n = t_{n-2} ...
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...
Description From the Esolangs wiki, In Fractran, a program consists of a finite list of positive, rational numbers. The input to a program is a positive integer n. The list is then searched ...
Goldbach's Conjecture states that every even whole number greater than 2 is the sum of 2 prime numbers. Your task is to return those 2 prime numbers, given an even whole number as input. There are ...
Looping counter Create an infinite loop that outputs lines of asterisks, with each line containing one more asterisk. Instead of the asterisk, any printable, non-whitespace character can be used. ...
Challenge A Niven number is a positive integer which is divisible by the sum of its digits. For example, 81 -> 8+1=9 -> 81%9=0. Your task is to find the first n Niven numbers, given n. Te...
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...
An integer is called square-free if it is not a multiple of a perfect square other than 1. For example, 42 is square-free, but 44 is not because it is a multiple of the perfect square 4 = 2². Your...
Task I often need to find the factorial of a number or the sum of all numbers up to a number when cheating on math tests. To help me with this, your task is to write $F$, a generalized version of ...
Challenge Given a string, e.g. Hello, do the following: Mirror it: Hello -> HelloolleH and create a right triangle using it as the sides: H ee l l l l o...
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...
Challenge Given an array consisting of positive integers and 0s, return it with 0s acting like backspaces. Leading backspaces do nothing, and more backspaces than elements also does nothing. Cre...
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, ...
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...
The task is to take a decimal integer as input and print the corresponding Roman numeral with capital letters. The program must handle all positive integer numbers between 1 and 1000. Input can be...
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 ╔╦╗ ╠╬╣ ...
Description APL trains are a series of functions, that get applied to an argument in this way: (f g) x = f g x (f g h) x = (f x) g (h x) (a b c d e f) x = (a (b c (d e f))) x = a (b x) c (d x) ...
Background Check out this video on the Collatz conjecture, also known as A006577. If you don't know what this is, we're given an equation of $3x + 1$, and it is applied this way: If $x$ is odd...
Challenge A simple challenge: Given a two-dimensional matrix (an array of arrays) of real numbers, compute the determinant. The determinant of a matrix is a mathematical construct used in many ap...
Get ready for a comparatively dry question - this is intended to be one of the "the"s of the code-golfing dictionary. Create a program which inputs a base 10 non-negative whole number (without lea...
In Google Docs, the word count tool looks like this: Pages would not make sense, but your goal is to implement every other count. Definitions Words are strings of text separated by any amount ...
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, &...
Using your languages of choice, golf a quine - a non-empty program taking no input and only outputting its source. Here, the win condition is your quine working in the most languages. It should be...
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 ...
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...
A rewrite of this SE question with a simpler input format and guidelines. Challenge Deadfish uses a single accumulator, on which all commands are to be performed. It has the following commands: ...
Challenge This is a simple randomness challenge: Given a non-negative integer $n$, and positive integer $m$, simulate rolling and summing the results of $n$ fair dice, each of which have $m$ sides...
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...
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...
Many programming languages have the concept of keywords, special syntax items that are not just identifiers reserved by some library, but words reserved by the language itself. The challenge is to...
The problem Someone has created an encoding format for square bit matrices, however they have found it isn't perfect! One encoding may not decode to exactly one matrix, or it may not even be possi...
This challenge is based on the i. verb from J. A range grid is basically a range of m × n numbers fit into a rectangular grid with m rows and n columns. A 2×3 range grid would be: 0 1 2 3 4 5 ...
About Negabinary Negabinary means base negative two (-2). That is, the $n$th place value is determined by $(-2)^n$. Negabinary numbers can be evaluated just like any other base system. For exampl...
ROBBERS' THREAD A famous cops-and-robbers challenge whose source shall remain unnamed is brought to Codidact. You are a cop. You should write a program in a "famous" (has an English Wikipedia/Eso...
Challenge You will be given a string and an ascii art as input. The string must be placed above the ascii art, and centered based on its longest line. The text BOTTOM TEXT must be placed below...
