Activity for Olin Lathrop‭

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Comment	Post #290667	"<i>Virtual fractions are integers</i>" - A fraction is inherently two numbers. You even talk of a numerator and denominator. Your example (43691 * 3) mod 65536 = 1 doesn't explain much. Where did the 3 come from? The equation 3 * 43691 = 1 mod 65536 is just plain wrong. 1 mod 65536 is 1, bu... (more)	—	3 months ago
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Answer	—	A: Make $2 + 2 = 5$ ESCR - not a golfing answer This isn't really an answer to the question, and it's not an attempt at golfing. However, it shows a cute trick for solving this problem that falls out of the way the ESCR language works. ESCR has no "operators" in the sense of a traditional programming language, on... (more)	—	3 months ago
Edit	Post #287283	Initial revision	—	over 1 year ago
Answer	—	A: Thoughts on hiding challenge sections with expandable details tags I don't like the partially or fully hidden examples. Those require more work to see the details, instead of just scrolling on. Anyone curious enough about a challenge from the title will want to read what it's about. Making that difficult is just annoying without any upside. Short challenges ... (more)	—	over 1 year ago
Edit	Post #286846	Initial revision	—	over 1 year ago
Answer	—	A: Evens or Odds - you know this one ESCR, 17 bytes show [and [in] 1] ESCR has no way to read from standard input (currently), so I assumed the existence of the function IN which magically returns the user input. Since the user input was specified to be an integer, the built-in AND function will do a bit-wise logical AND with... (more)	—	over 1 year ago
Edit	Post #286287	Post edited:	—	almost 2 years ago
Edit	Post #286287	Initial revision	—	almost 2 years ago
Answer	—	A: Looping counter Embed ESCR, about 32 characters depending on how you count loop append s "" show s endloop The indentation is not required, but shown for clarity. Declaring the variable S is also not included, since similar stuff doesn't seem to be included in other examples. S is a string varia... (more)	—	almost 2 years ago
Edit	Post #285958	Initial revision	—	about 2 years ago
Answer	—	A: A number adder, not a death adder ESCR, 35 bytes show "show [+ [arg 1] " [arg 1] "]" The SHOW command writes to standard output. The parameters in quotes are just fixed strings. The ARG function returns a numbered argument. In the case of programs, these are command line parameters. Running this program with 13 as example p... (more)	—	about 2 years ago
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Answer	—	A: Make my value binary Embed ESCR, 16 characters [int n "base 2"] The INT function produces the text representation of an integer with lots of formatting options. The only non-default option needed was to set the number base to 2. Full example: loop with n from 0 to 10 show n ": " [int n "base 2"] endloo... (more)	—	about 2 years ago
Edit	Post #285933	Initial revision	—	about 2 years ago
Answer	—	A: It's Hip to be Square Embed ESCR, 28 characters [= [exp [rnd [sqrt n]] 2] n] The number to test is in N. There are 4 nested functions. From inner to outer: SQRT takes the square root of N. This produces a floating point result. RND rounds that to the nearest integer. EXP is used to raise that integer to the pow... (more)	—	about 2 years ago
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Edit	Post #285893	Initial revision	—	about 2 years ago
Answer	—	A: Can you give me half? Embed ESCR, 6 unique characters, 19 bytes [/ [] [+ [] []]] Each [] pair of brackets encloses an in-line function. The first token in a function is the function name, and subsequent tokens, if any, the parameters. Functions can be nested. The function multiplies a series of numbers. The p... (more)	—	about 2 years ago