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Getting perfect squares, differently

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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 validation.

Things such as built-ins/functions related to these unusable methods can't be used either. pow(x,y) and x**y are examples of these unusable methods.

A simple, yet tricky activity! Being code-golf, the shortest program in each programming language wins!

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Banning builtins isn't a great idea (4 comments)
What exactly do you mean by "all"? (2 comments)
Banning builtins isn't a great idea
user‭ wrote over 2 years ago

What counts as a multiplication/exponentiation builtin is quite poorly defined, and although many languages might get by without them just fine here, they might not for other sorts of challenges/other builtins. I'd advise against banning them. One alternative is to create your own mini language for the purposes of the challenge and do atomic golf.

General Sebast1an‭ wrote over 2 years ago

user‭ I don't know how to make one at all. Might learn from Lyxal, but meh.

General Sebast1an‭ wrote over 2 years ago

user‭ Don't worry. It's only THIS challenge (hopefully) of mine that'll ban specific built-ins. The only reason it was excluded to be used was to make the challenge harder. Getting those perfect squares with those 2 helpful operations is kinda boring, so I "flavored" it.

user‭ wrote over 2 years ago

No, I didn't mean make a full-fledged golflang, just use pseudocode or maybe take a subset of Python/C/whatever without multiplication and exponentiation.