Quintec‭

Given an positive integer $n$, return the least positive integer $k$ such that the $k$th partial sum of the harmonic series is greater than or equal to $n$. For example, if $n = 2$, then $k = 4$, b...

11 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by south‭

Japt, 10 11 13 15 solutions 256 Works as you would expect. 8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8 Subtracting negative numbers. 4**4...

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quintec‭

Functions may take input via arguments and output via return value Functions may also use STDIN/STDOUT as they wish.

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

What sort of loopholes are assumed to be disallowed in any challenge on this site? One loophole per answer, please. Vote up answers if you want them disallowed, and down otherwise.

13 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by AndrewTheCodegolfer‭

Should sandbox posts give rep? On one hand, keeping this feature motivates more people to use the sandbox. On the other hand, allowing people to gain rep twice for the same content seems wrong in s...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Goldbach's Conjecture states that every even whole number greater than 2 is the sum of 2 prime numbers. Your task is to return those 2 prime numbers, given an even whole number as input. There are ...

10 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by torres‭

What input/output methods do you think should be allowed/disallowed while code golfing on this site? What guidelines for input/output methods do you think should be in place? One method per answer...

17 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by AndrewTheCodegolfer‭

You may output delimiter-separated values instead of a list For example, the output [1,2,3] could be represented as 1 2 3 or 1|2|3.

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭

Functions may use arguments or lists of arguments interchangeably For example, if a challenge requires defining f(x, y, z), f(a) is also acceptable where a[0] = x, a[1] = y, a[2] = z.

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭

In Google Docs, the word count tool looks like this: Pages would not make sense, but your goal is to implement every other count. Definitions Words are strings of text separated by any amount ...

9 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by torres‭

This sounds like a great idea to me. To summarize how we can move forward on this: For the Codidact Team Create a new meta tag (defaults? name pending) that is one of the options for the requir...

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quintec‭

Cat Quines Quines that simply output the source code due to some sort of implicit I/O, such as 1 in many languages.

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭

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posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quintec‭

You may modify the input in-place If a function takes an input a, it is acceptable that a contains the intended output after executing instead of other forms of output. Note that this means a must...

posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quintec‭

Reactions were just released! See the main meta post here for the details. Currently, the default reactions look like this: Now, I would argue that none of these fit for Code Golf - so what rea...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Quintec‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Lundin‭