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Can you give me half?

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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, double, etc), not as a string.

The catch, the characters 0 through to 9 cannot be used.

One example that fits the brief would be the following:

((++[[]][[~~""]]<<++[[]][[~~""]]))**((--[[]][[~~""]])) which works out to 0.5 in JavaScript.

Scoring

This is a code challenge, where scoring is done in terms of number of unique characters used in the submission. Ties are broken by lowest bytecount.

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posted almost 3 years ago
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Languages without built in float (2 comments)
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Japt, 1 byte 

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Test it

Jelly, Vyxal, 1 byte

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Try it online!

Yeah, golf langs still kind of kill this challenge.

posted almost 3 years ago
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The Japt one _must_ work in a couple of other languages, surely? I'd be shocked if it didn't. (2 comments)
I think the second works in 05AB1E too (3 comments)
I think the second works in 05AB1E too
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I think the second works in 05AB1E too

Quintec‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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did not work for me when i tried

user‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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Oh ok (pad pad pad)