Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #292920 |
That's a good point. (more) |
— | 2 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292920 |
Since you mention rounding, it might be worth mentioning the behaviour expected for decimals ending in 5. Some places always round up (2.5 rounds to 3, 3.5 rounds to 4), but other places (particularly statistical or scientific settings) have other rules, such as [round to even](https://en.wikipedia.o... (more) |
— | 3 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292910 |
Although I can guess, it's worth editing to explicitly explain how you are getting all 26 letters of the alphabet in less than 26 bytes. (more) |
— | 5 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292891 | Initial revision | — | 9 days ago |
| Question | — |
Advice for hosting a language agnostic King of the Hill contest A King of the Hill contest requires that a controller program provided by the person hosting the contest communicate (both input and output) with each of the entries to the contest. For some contests these entries may be functions to be called by the controller, and in other contests the entries may ... (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292835 |
Post edited: Improve sentence flow |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292756 |
The idea is not that the input would come into the program through function parameters, but that the function would be called from within a larger program, and the program would call it using arguments as input. This allows competing to find the shortest function that solves a problem, rather than to... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292756 |
> This is under the assumption that in a function solution, input has to be passed as parameter and output through the return value
I would be interested to hear any alternatives you considered, and whether you think they would make good defaults for input and output for function solutions.
Eve... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292835 |
Post edited: Add extra detail |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292835 | Initial revision | — | 18 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Category migration and the sandbox Start afresh but keep history When migrating to the Challenges category, there are several aspects of the post that could be included or discarded: - Comments - Edit history - Votes Comments The comments during sandbox development are not relevant to the final challenge, and would be a dist... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292376 |
Post edited: Add finalized tag to allow filtering out |
— | 18 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292830 |
One thing I forgot to ask about in the Sandbox:
> The program need not do anything meaningful but must compile cleanly (no language syntax or constraint violations etc)
I assume from this that warnings that do not prevent compilation/interpretation are acceptable. Either way, it might be helpfu... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292834 | Initial revision | — | 18 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Category migration and the sandbox Sandbox votes should give no reputation I believe this is already the case, but for completeness: I agree that neither upvotes nor downvotes on Sandbox posts should affect reputation. Although I would encourage everyone to sandbox every challenge idea, I think the benefits of rewarding sandbox... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292831 |
Since there are a few separate questions here, I can see a benefit to posting one idea per answer. This way, I can post an idea about whether sandbox votes should count and an idea about whether to reset votes, and one can be upvoted and the other downvoted. If they were posted in a single answer, th... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289782 |
Post edited: Fix typo |
— | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #287082 |
Good point. It would be useful to list each direction. I've edited to add a TODO so I don't forget to do this before posting. (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Edit | Post #287082 |
Post edited: Add TODO for direction of each compass point |
— | 23 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292000 |
Post edited: Add TODO for checking choice of sphere makes little difference |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292000 |
Since all of the surface patterns in the test cases are formed by overlapping spheres to take advantage of this effect, I will double check before posting that either choice of which sphere's colour to display gives sufficiently similar output images. (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292000 |
When 2 spheres A and B overlap, there are 3 types of overlapping points:
- The surface of A is inside the surface of B (so the nearest intersection will be B).
- The surface of B is inside the surface of A (so the nearest intersection will be A).
- The 2 surfaces meet along a circle (infinitely th... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292000 |
I've now edited the Output section to mention this - thank you.
The test cases will be adjusted to match the newly specified z range before posting. (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292000 |
Post edited: Specify z range |
— | 23 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292000 |
Post edited: Specify what happens when 2 or more intersections are nearest |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292000 |
Good question.
Short answer:
I should make explicit that the code can choose either. I will edit accordingly.
Waffle:
The only case where I'd expect this to make a noticeable difference to the resulting image is when two spheres are identical in both centre and radius, which could cause o... (more) |
— | 23 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291542 |
Since this uses the same regex as your JavaScript answer, the same bug applies as described in [Peter Taylor's comment there](https://codegolf.codidact.com/comments/thread/9801#comment-24662). (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291048 |
Post edited: Fix wording of lower case test cases introduction |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291048 |
I hadn't thought of that. I see no reason why not. I've now edited to explicitly allow lower case, provided that your output is in the same case as your input (apart from the indication that an input is valid, which can be any consistent value), and I've added the same test cases in lower case. (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291048 |
Post edited: Fine tune lower case requirements |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291048 |
Post edited: Allow lower case input and add lower case test cases |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292741 |
Yes there is more than 1 way to get the correct answer. I'm interested to see which way will turn out to be shortest in different languages. (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292696 |
Post edited: Mark as finalized |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292741 | Initial revision | — | 29 days ago |
| Question | — |
Multiplicative perfection Given a positive integer, indicate whether it is the product of its proper divisors. Integers equal to the product of their proper divisors can be found on the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences as the Multiplicatively perfect numbers. Input - A positive integer N. Output - An indica... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292696 |
Thanks for the feedback. I should have noticed that when I found the OEIS entry. I've replaced all occurrences now. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292696 |
Post edited: Improve terminology following Sandbox feedback, and put examples in a table |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292696 |
Post edited: Wording refinement |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292696 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Article | — |
Multiplicative perfection [FINALIZED] Now posts: Multiplicative perfection Given a positive integer, indicate whether it is the product of its proper divisors. Integers equal to the product of their proper divisors can be found on the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences as the Multiplicatively perfect numbers. Input - ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292658 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Preferred length limit for Code Golf posts 65,535 The database field can already handle up to 65,535 (216 - 1) characters. Same for all post types and categories I don't see a need for different limits for questions and answers, or for different categories. Challenges I sometimes find the current 30,000 character limit restrictive,... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292657 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Preferred length limit for Code Golf posts Currently the maximum number of characters for a Codidact post is 30,000. However, at some point this may be configurable per community (or perhaps per category). There is a GitHub issue for Configurable length limits for content. If this configuration option is implemented, what limit would you l... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292376 |
Good point about combining with a library. That seems to make this inclusive of more languages. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292376 |
Personally, I expected that "constants" would be referring to the names of built in constants, such as `PI` or `SQRT3`.
However, since the names of such constants also count as "identifiers", it might help to have an explanation of each term to remove ambiguity. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292376 |
Another possible wording:
> The English alphabet (in alphabetical order) is a subsequence of the source code. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292376 |
> the source itself contains and iterates through the whole English alphabet
Here "iterates through" sounds like the code when running has to process the alphabet, which does not appear to be the case from the example code. My best guess at the intended meaning is:
> the source itself contains ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292376 |
I don't know if there are languages for which not every letter is included in a language keyword, function name, constant, or identifier. If there are, then it sounds like these languages would be unable to compete. I have 2 thoughts on this:
1. Not every challenge has to be open to every language. ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292356 |
In response to a comment on the challenge, I've decided to make the input format more flexible. This leaves your current answer just as valid as before, but I'm letting you know because it is likely you can use the added flexibility to reduce your score. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |