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Albuququerquerquerquerque challlengenge
Introduction
Esolangs.org user "Tommyaweosme", after getting 3-4 hours into a 17-hour video called "albuquerque but every time a word repeats it loops (normal speed)", created this ...
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63 ways to split your string in YAML
There are 63 ways you can split a string across multiple lines in YAML. Your task is to write a program that outputs a YAML array that demonstrates all of them and their key features, in any order.
A ...
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Prime ASCII Mock Text Converter [closed]
Prime ASCII Mock Text Converter
Task: Write a program that transforms input text by selectively alternating the case of alphabetic characters (A-Z, a-z) if their ASCII codes are prime numbers. The ...
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Produce 2025 in any human language, without those characters in your code
It's 2025! Write a function/program that outputs this number in words.
There are two twists:
You can write it out in (almost) any human language (including English).
None of the characters in your ...
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How many polygons overlap? (hard)
Write a program or function which, given 1 or more polygons, determines the greatest number of polygons overlapping at a single point. That is, if each polygon was a piece of paper positioned ...
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Noise Cancelling Headphones
Alex ([email protected]) Hey champ, we've just had a huge order for those new noise-cancelling headphones we're meant to be making. Unfooooorrttunately... ...
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Draw the caustics in a cup
If you have ever consumed liquid from a shallow cup in sunlight, you may have noticed a shape like the following at the bottom:
You might notice a nephroid shaped bright outline, a brighter area on ...
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I need help in solving following template error when compiling a solver in openfoam7 [closed]
Making dependency list for source file phaseModel.C
g++ -std=c++11 -m64 -Dlinux64 -DWM_ARCH_OPTION=64 -DWM_DP -DWM_LABEL_SIZE=32 -Wall -Wextra -Wold-style-cast -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-unused-parameter ...
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Daily Motto Finder
The daily motto is a project by me, allowing unique and dynamic motto every day.
Here, you’ll attempt to rewrite my code, making it code-golf style. The motto uses a specific algorithm, determining ...
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Chisanbop complexity
Chisanbop is a simple method of counting from zero to ninety-nine on two hands invented by Sung Jin Pai and revised by his son Hang Young Pai.
To make numbers, zero, one, or more digits are raised, ...
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Custom variations of Niemöller's poem ("First They Came")
The "First They Came" poem(*) by German pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade ...
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Primitive words
Given a list of values, 1, 2, -1, or -2, we will allow the following simple moves:
Remove adjacent values which are negatives of each other. e.g. ...
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Fill in the blanks of this equation
Your task is to write a program or function that can fill in the blanks of an equation provided in this form:
_ + _ / _ = 4
In this case, a valid solution would be:
2 + 8 / 4 = 4
Each blank must be ...
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Block covered cycles
Given a cycle of non-zero numbers we say a "block" is a substring appearing immediately after \$n\$ and immediately before \$-n\$, which contains neither \$n\$ nor \$-n\$.
Here is an example ...
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Output the 32 points of the compass
The 32 points of the compass are:
N, NbE, NNE, NEbN, NE, NEbE, ENE, EbN, E, EbS, ESE, SEbE, SE, SEbS, SSE, SbE, S, SbW, SSW, SWbS, SW, SWbW, WSW, WbS, W, WbN, WNW, NWbW, NW, NWbN, NNW, NbW
(SEbE is ...
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Name the nth Tama successor
Tama was a cat born 26 years ago today who gained fame for being a railway station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
Photo ...
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Implement PHMINPOSUW (Packed Horizontal Word Minimum)
PHMINPOSUW (Packed Horizontal Word Minimum) is a specialized x86 instruction that finds the minimum value and location of a 16-bit unsigned integer in an 8-element vector packed into a 128-bit ...
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Box drawing number display
Similar:
Display words using 7-segment display
Seven Slash Display
My first challenge
Using the box drawing symbols (─│┌┐└┘├┤┬┴┼╴╵╶╷ or ...
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Draw X numbers from range Y
Inspired by this question
Task:
Given integers X and Y:
Randomly select an int in 1..Y (inclusive), X times. This selection is to be performed without replacement ...
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Fitch Proof of \$(p\Longrightarrow q)\iff\lnot p\lor q\$ with least amount of steps
In the smallest amount of steps, prove
$$(p\Longrightarrow q)\iff\lnot p\lor q$$
We base the proof system on this website. The related functionalities are:
Assumption. Assume that some statement is ...
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Conversion between CESU-8 and UTF-8 (for supplementary characters)
The Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit, also known as CESU-8, is a Unicode encoding that is not part of the Unicode standard, but mentioned in a Unicode Technical Report as a ...
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Ruler-and-compass constructions
In this code-golf challenge, you will work with a construction that was used by the ancient Greeks: the straightedge-and-compass construction. In particular, you will count how many different ...
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UTF-8 character decoder (with invalid sequence handling)
UTF-8 is the most widely used character encoding on the internet. It encodes a Unicode code point into a byte sequence of 1 to 4 bytes long.
The UTF-8 encoding has many features that makes it popular, ...
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Pi Calculating Challenge [duplicate]
Using as few characters of code as possible, create code to calculate at least 1000 digits of Pi within 1 second.
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Bespoke numbers
Introduction
Bespoke is an esoteric programming language I created in January 2025, where the commands are encoded into the lengths of words in the program. For example, ...
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Long running section 11.4 Minsky machine
Challenge
We define a Minsky machine as a program made of the following two instructions:
+X which increments the register X and continues to the next instruction
-Xn which simply continues if X is ...
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Turn a string into a snake
Write a function or program which writes an input string out as a snake.
The snake starts heading to the right. If a / or \ ...
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Count number of families of sets satisfying a list of criteria
CHALLENGE
This problem has a math background.
For n=1,2,3,4 we want to count the number of families of sets with maximum n elements that satisfy many criteria of the form:
$$\bigoplus_{k\in A,A\in \...
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Bring back cup stacking
Do you remember cup stacking? Young competitors compete to see how quickly they can arrange 12 upside-down plastic cups into three consecutive arrangements of cup pyramids.
The number of each cups in ...
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The Oreo Problem: How to find the Excess
This problem is inspired from this childhood advertisement I remembered of while making biscuits with my checkers. Assume you got a black checker, and white checker on top of it, and another black ...