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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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Draw X numbers from range Y
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Box drawing number display
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Seven Slash Display
My first challenge
Using the box drawing symbols (─│┌┐└┘├┤┬┴┼╴╵╶╷ or ...
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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