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What general tips do you have for golfing in Python? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Python (e.g. "remove comments" is ...
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Summary: For any given language, what is the smallest amount of unique characters for your language to be Turing-Complete? Challenge: For any language of your choice, find the smallest subset of ...
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This is the cop's thread of a cops-and-robbers challenge. You can view the robber's thread here A pretty common beginner style question is to print some string, but there's a catch! You need to do it ...
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Inspiration: in 1939, a man named Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel called Gadsby without using the letter 'e'. Your task is to write a set of (up to 5) programs in any language (which has a text-...
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This is the robber's thread of a cops-and-robbers challenge. You can view the cop's thread here A pretty common beginner style question is to print some string, but, there's a catch!, you need to do ...
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Challenge Print the following characters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890 The catch is that you may not use any one of them in ...
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In Fewest (distinct) characters for Turing Completeness, the goal is to find the minimum number of characters which make a language Turing Complete...in other words, allow it to do any computation ...
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Write 2 programs in the same language which count the number of shared subsequences of consecutive elements from 2 given sequences. For example, given ...
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In this challenge, your past self comes back to help or hurt someone else! The task is simple: write a full program, not a function, that prints the first code submission on this site submitted by the ...
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I tested the waters on this sort of question with python, but now I get to the real question I want to ask. restricted-source challenges are uniquely rewarding in Haskell because of Haskell's strict ...
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Adapted from tips for restricted-source in Python Just like code-golf, restricted-source pushes one to exploit quirks and hidden features of the zsh language. While we already have a place to collect ...
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Adapted from Tips for restricted source in Python Just like code-golf, restricted-source pushes one to exploit quirks and hidden features of the Powershell language. Now, We already have a place to ...
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