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Posts by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Operation "Find The Operator"

Challenge Make a program that takes input of 3 non-negative integers: a result and 2 other values that once calculated results to the 3rd value. The program must figure out how to get the 2 fir...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by radarek‭

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Challenges Collatz conjecture; Count the tries to reach $1$

Background Check out this video on the Collatz conjecture, also known as A006577. If you don't know what this is, we're given an equation of $3x + 1$, and it is applied this way: If $x$ is odd...

15 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by torres‭

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Challenges Recreate the Stack Overflow logo

Originally from Somewhere Else. I thought I'd continue making more drawing challenges here now that I discovered it. Make the Stack Overflow logo using the following criteria: The tray: ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Anonymous‭

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Challenges 99 Shortened Bottles of Beer

Disclaimer This challenge also exists in CGCC, but if you want to compete here (too), then hop in! Challenge Recreate "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", using the least bytes possible. Lyrics: ...

13 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Caesar shift cipher

Introduction What is the Caesar shift cipher (ROT$n$)? It's basically a cipher sequence that changes a letter's value from the number chosen. If we use ROT1 on "games", we get "hbnft". The basic i...

7 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Q&A Getting started with making (and/or solving) KOTH challenges

I have seen KOTH (King of the Hill) challenges before but it's still unclear to me how to properly make, or even play, such challenge. To get started, how do I make (or solve) KOTHs? An answer cou...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Separate the tags away from the Sandbox or delete the [finalized] tag

This is a feature-request post consisting of 2 actions for a reason... There's this thing that's been bugging me for a while in Code Golf CD. If you go to the tag page of the Challenges catego...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Abbreviate everything

Challenge Make a program that takes input of a string and abbreviate it. All letters of an abbreviation are capitalized, so keep that in mind. Whitespace, numbers and non-English characters ar...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Hakerh400‭

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Meta Can I repost a challenge that I posted elsewhere here?

I have this challenge in Code Golf and I wonder if I can repost it here for more users to come, and also continue making these since I actually like them. Can I post this challenge to Codidact?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Challenges My house is destroyed! Can you make me one?

Background A House of I I went on an adventure Grabbed resources and making deeds Like start to work on the materials To build the shelter I need It was a marvelous one At least in the eyes ...

10 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta Add detailed wikis and usage info on these tags

In this request (not really a feature-request but still tagged so anyway), I'd like to have detailed wikis on tags and maybe usage information on them too. Currently, these tags have usage info in...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Q&A Tips for golfing in C

C is a language I use most apart from Python and as someone who likes code golf challenges, what tips are there to golf in C?

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Q&A Tips for [fastest-code] in Python

What tips are there in fastest code, or what I like to call code speeding, challenges in Python?

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

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Q&A Tips for golfing in Python

Combine conditionals Python has its fair share of comparison operators and can actually be used in a single conditional. For example: x == 2 and y == 2 can be: x==y==2 Used on Make $2 + 2 ...

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

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Challenges Reverse an ASCII string

Lua, 32 bytes print(string.reverse(io.read())) Try it online! Noice built-in.

posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Define a mathematical expression in English

Background Inspired by this challenge that is also a mathematical English translator. Challenge Write a program that translates a mathematical expression using English with the following specifi...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Guess the language! (Cops' Thread)

Forth (gforth), cracked by user, 20 bytes .( Cops and Robbers) Try it online!

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

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Q&A What's a code bowling challenge?

There's another type of challenge named code bowling, and I've never heard of it, or even if I did, still don't know how it works. I'm willing to write challenges on code bowling and I want to know...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges Reverse your quine

Challenge Write a program that prints its reversed self. For example, if your code is foo() Then it'll output: )(oof Make sure that the quine is a valid one, as defined here: No cheatin...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by celtschk‭

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Challenges The Ludic Numbers

Python 3, 80 77 75 72 bytes def f(): yield 1;l=[*range(2,236425)] while l:yield l[0];del l[::l[0]] Try it online! Prints out the whole sequence. I did my best to get the biggest number t...

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

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Q&A Tips for golfing in Java

Use interface The special thing about this is that it lets you drop public when you originally call a class to run the main function. class F{public static void main(String[]a{}} interface M{sta...

posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Challenges 99 Shortened Bottles of Beer

Java (JDK), 311 301 296 bytes interface A{static void main(String[]x){String a=" bottle",b=" of beer",c=" on the wall. ",e;for(int i=99;i>0;i--){e=i>1?"s":"";System.out.println(i+a+e+b+c+(...

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

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