Posts by trichoplax
Consider a type of hexadecimal colour code that supports shorthand for both greyscale and colour: A 6 digit code is interpreted as 2 digits for red, followed by 2 for green, then 2 for blue. A ...
On main Codidact Meta there was a request for Unique favicons for each site. This has had a positive response and no objections (the nearest is one answer that says it should be opt in per communit...
We have many questions about how to golf in a specific programming language. These result in tips that apply only to that language or closely related languages. What advice do you have on golfing ...
How should I format my answer so that it works correctly with the automated leaderboard that shows under a challenge? What is the required format? How much flexibility is there? Once this ...
If the challenge author does not specify otherwise, should an answer be required to work repeatedly? That is, is an answer allowed to be written in a way that saves bytes by only working the first ...
I'm raising this on our local Meta first, rather than the main Codidact Meta, because I don't yet have the Edit Posts ability so I can't tell what problems may exist. Hopefully some of you who have...
Python 3, 319 318 bytes print('riBfig,barBbilBdewBmulBtayBabiu,bael,date,lime,lulo,neem,noni,pear,pili,plum,rimu,sloe,sorb,yuzu,bearBblueBcranBcrowBemu BhackBjuneBlimeBpineBraspBwineBwolfByew Back...
Given a word that can be rotated by 180 degrees (a half turn) about at least one of its 3 axes and continue to be composed of English alphabet letters, output one of its rotated forms. The 3 rotat...
Convert a matrix or grid of digits to its antitranspose. For a square matrix , this is its reflection in its antidiagonal. More generally, for a rectangular matrix, this is its reflection in its sk...
You roll $N$ six-sided dice simultaneously. Your score is the highest number rolled. If you play this game many times, what is the expected value (mean) of your score? Input A positive integer ...
The leaderboard that shows below a code golf challenge can either sort the answers to show the winner for each language separately (if "Group by language" is ticked) or it can show all the answers ...
$N$ vessels initially contain $3$ stones each. What is the probability of having at least $3$ stones in the first vessel after moving a uniformly random selection from the first vessel to the secon...
The title of a Codidact question has a minimum length of 15 characters. For a question this is generally fine, as the title will be a summary of the question in the form of a single sentence. Howe...
Does a positive integer have a substring as a factor? Input A positive integer. Output One of 2 distinct values to indicate whether the input has a factor that is a strict substring of it...
Find the shortest representation of an integer in generalised Roman numerals. Since there is more than one way to generalise, only the following definition applies to this challenge. Definition T...
When answering a code-golf challenge, what types of answer are acceptable by default? Can an answer be a complete program, a function, an anonymous function, a snippet of code? Please add one type...
Anonymous function A code golf answer can be an anonymous function[1]. That is, a function that can be defined without giving it a name (in programming languages that allow this). If an anonymous...
A snippet is not a valid answer A code golf answer must in general be able to take input[1] and give output. A snippet of code that is not contained in a function or program cannot take input[2], ...
Given a positive integer, count its odd digits. Input An integer from 1 to 999,999,999, inclusive, in any of the following formats: A number (such as an integer or floating point number), li...
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 d...
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