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Challenges Evens or Odds - you know this one

Python 3, 10 bytes 1 .__and__ Try it online! Returns 1 for odd numbers and 0 for even numbers. Two bytes shorter than the trivial lambda x:x%2 and one byte shorter than the equivalent magic...

posted 3y ago by hyper-neutrino‭

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Challenges Evens or Odds - you know this one

Regex, 8 bytes [02468]$ Matches strings ending in one of 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. [13579]$ is equivalent but with opposite outputs. Try it on Regex101!

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

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Meta Leaderboards are live

You might have noticed that challenges now show a leaderboard in addition to the table of contents. This is something this community has wanted for a while, and now, thanks to user contributions a...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by user‭

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Challenges Versatile self-printer

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by AndrewTheCodegolfer‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Meta Is my extension-like library allowed to be used in answers?

Yes, including the fact that it's in C. Using a heading such as "C + BMPL" that links to the library and explains what it does should be fine. I also think that having a way to run it (preferably ...

posted 3y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta Should [code-golf-tips] be replaced with [tips] + [code-golf]?

Yes tips is a sort of prefix tag, and code-golf-tips is a superfluous tag. I think it it worth keeping them separate because tips is already very flexible.

posted 3y ago by Razetime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Are All Elements Equal?

Zsh, 8 bytes >$@ <^$1 Attempt This Online! Outputs via exit code: 0 for not all the same; 1 for all the same >$@: create a file named for each element in the input effectively de...

posted 3y ago by pxeger‭

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Meta Default Rules: Extensions

Since there have been some discussions about the use of GCC extensions, I decided to make a default-rules post about it. How should we deal with compiler extensions to languages?

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

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Challenges Create an Alphabet Diamond

Brain-Flak, 250 bytes ((((()()()){}){}){}()){(({})[()])}{}(<>)<>{({}<>)<>}<>{(({})[()])}([]){{}([(({}))](((()()()){}){}){}()){({}[()])<>((((()()()()){}){}){})&l...

posted 4y ago by DJMcMayhem‭

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Challenges 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

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Challenges Word Set Square

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 23 bytes Anonymous tacit prefix function. Reuires 0-based indexing (⎕IO←0) (⊢⍪⍨¯1↓⊢,∘↑-∘⍳∘≢↑¨⊢)⊢,⌽ Try it online! ⌽ reverse the argument ⊢, prepend the argument (…) ...

posted 3y ago by Adám‭

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Challenges 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 3y ago by rak1507‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Shaggy‭

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Challenges Weave Strings Together

Jelly, 2 1 byte Z Try it online! -1 byte thanks to Razetime! Full program How it works Z - Main link. Takes a list L on the left Z - Transpose Implicitly print, smashing lists togethe...

posted 3y ago by caird coinheringaahing‭  ·  edited 3y ago by caird coinheringaahing‭

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Challenges Golf a FRACTRAN interpreter

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 33 bytes {×x←⊃(2⌷⍵)(÷⍨(/⍨)0=|)⍺×1⌷⍵:x∇⍵⋄⍺} Try it online! The first case doesn't work because it gets really big, but the other two do. The input is taken on the left a...

posted 3y ago by user‭  ·  edited 3y ago by user‭

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Challenges 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 3y ago by caird coinheringaahing‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Shaggy‭

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Challenges Juggler sequences

BQN, 17 bytesSBCS {𝕩∾1𝕊⍟≠⌊𝕩⋆2|𝕩+÷2} Run online! BQN primitives alone can't express unbounded iteration, so this must be a recursive block function. {𝕩∾1𝕊⍟≠⌊𝕩⋆2|𝕩+÷2} # Function 𝕊 taking argu...

posted 3y ago by Marshall Lochbaum‭

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Challenges Juggler sequences

Jelly, 7 bytes *Ḃ×½ḞµƬ *Ḃ×½ḞµƬ *Ḃ input ^ (input % 2) ×½ multiply sqrt(input) Ḟ floor µƬ iterate until converged and collect results Try it online!

posted 3y ago by rak1507‭

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Challenges Source with the whole alphabet in order of appearance

Vyxal, 27 bytes QabcdefghijKlmnopqrstUvwxyz Try it Online! Works by exiting straight away. The joys of a language where every letter is a built-in function. Explained QabcdefghijKlmnopqrstUv...

posted 1mo ago by lyxal‭

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Meta Reactions on Code Golf Codidact

None of these are applicable at least not for Code Golf challenges. I think this community should "opt out" of reactions unless we can come up with more relevant ones. "Works for me". Answers ...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Challenges 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

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Challenges Keyword golfing

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...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by H_H‭

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Challenges Digit Sum Integer Sequence (working title)

Inspired by this challenge. If anyone has any suggestions for a song title I could use for the challenge title then please leave a comment. Definition We define f(x) for a given integer as the su...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Shaggy‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by xrs‭

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Meta Can we have [popularity-contest]s?

Well... maybe not in combination with a code golf challenge, but more like an artistic challenge with some theme, similar to screenshot of the month? For reference see for example Outdoors photo co...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Challenges 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

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Challenges 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