Posts tagged code-golf
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...
[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...
C is a language I use most apart from Python and as someone who likes code golf challenges, what tips are there to golf in C?
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...
This is a list of golfing tips for the language known as Java. If you have a tip, add it in!
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 -- ...
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. ...
If you have any tips for golfing in Python, add them as answers to this post.
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
Challenge Given the roots of a polynomial (that is, the $x$ values where the polynomial evaluates to zero), as an array of real numbers, return the polynomial's coefficients. That is, given real ...
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...
If you have any tips for golfing in Ruby, share them as answers to this post.
Challenge Output the following text: A ABA ABCBA ABCDCBA ABCDEDCBA ...
This is a list of golfing tips for the language known as Philippine Peso PHP. If you have a tip, add it in!
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...
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 ...
Lua's not really used much in golfing, so it'd be pretty cool to learn some golfing tricks when making answers using it. What golfing tips are there for Lua?
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 ...
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 ╔╦╗ ╠╬╣ ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
I have a question about everyone's favourite Code Golf editor https://tio.run. After picking a language, is there a sensible way to enter command line arguments to it, other than adding them manual...
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; ! ...
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...
