AndrewTheCodegolfer‭

Outsourcing the answer to unofficial conditions An example would be a program to print the Fibonacci numbers: instead of actually computing them, it queries an API and gives back its output. Anoth...

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Interpreting the challenge too literally If the challenge asks that you print the nth prime given input n, a program printing the nth prime given input n isn't allowed.

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Get ready for a comparatively dry question - this is intended to be one of the "the"s of the code-golfing dictionary. Create a program which inputs a base 10 non-negative whole number (without lea...

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Programs may take input from prompts from the GUI For Mathematica, JS, Matlab, et. al. this is the closest thing they have to STDIN.

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Using the lack of features in a language to trivialize the problem For example, in a challenge which requires your program to check if it is connected to the internet, using Brainfuck to always pr...

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Functions may take multiple arguments with currying For some languages like Haskell this is almost a necessity, as only one-argument functions exist and multi-argument functions are implemented wi...

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Regex, 8 bytes [02468]$ Matches strings ending in one of 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. [13579]$ is equivalent but with opposite outputs. Try it on Regex101!

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Using your languages of choice, golf a quine - a non-empty program taking no input and only outputting its source. Here, the win condition is your quine working in the most languages. It should be...

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Create a program P1 which takes as input a base 10 number N1 (the numbers for the variables are important). Given N1, P1 will print a program P2. P2 will take as input a base 10 number N2 and outpu...

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In languages without STDIN (eg ///) programs may input through insertion into the source code Also applies to cellular automata, in which the most natural way of taking input is specifying some sp...

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Regexes may output via the list of matched strings (capture group 0)

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Optimizing specifically for the given test cases Applies to "code-speeding" or fastest-code where your program must run as quickly as possible, as well as compression challenges. Obviously, there ...

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Multiple URL shorteners in a web-based challenge In challenges which require fetching data from the Internet, URL shorteners can be problematic. This is because: shorteners made after the cha...

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I have proposed that we shouldn't use nonfree languages to compete in cops-and-robbers challenges, but this proposal needs some demarcation. Matlab, Stata, LabVIEW all have finite free trials. Bat...

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Using a non-free (beer) language on a cops-and-robbers challenge For a discussion on what counts as "free", see this post. Cops-and-robbers challenges have two components: a cop posts a program o...

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