Questions tagged [code-challenge]
A code challenge is a competition for creative ways to solve a programming puzzle with an objective winning criterion not covered by other scoring tags (e.g. code-golf).
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Largest possible relative error
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\$20\$ float64s with absolute value between 1 and 2 inclusive whose sum has the largest possible relative error. We can assume the true sum is not zero.
The sum is to be computed from left to ...
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Find 10 float64s that give the least accurate sum
Input
Integer \$n > 1\$
Output
Ten 64 bit floating point numbers between \$-n\$ and \$n\$, inclusive, whose sum is the least accurate.
Details and examples.
These examples are not claimed to be ...
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Create the characters you can write on a MacOS US English Keyboard (as another OS will read them)
Introduction
This is a small challenge I came up with while trying to make some compact code for my younger brother to use. I don't think it's particularly interesting, but I believe it presents some ...
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nimi ale lon toki pona! (Every word in Toki Pona!)
"nimi ale lon toki pona" is a song by YouTuber jan Misali which lists 137 common words in the constructed language Toki Pona. This challenge is not a duplicate of "How high can you ...
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Convert maximum values to bit widths
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The newest version of the C standard, C23, adds preprocessor macros like INT_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, and ...
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Magical BF: BF code that works in two ways
Challenge
In this challenge, we will use a language that is very similar to Brainfuck but slightly different.
This variant of BF does not have any input and output commands; instead, it simply takes ...
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The many ways to skin a `cat` [duplicate]
The well known cat command simply copies its stdin directly to stdout unchanged. But there are plenty of other commandline tools that exist...
What other commands ...
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Forward foo, reverse bar, but avoid dead code [closed]
So simple: Provide some code that outputs foo and with the reversed source outputs bar. But before you come up with something ...
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Print the banned characters based on the most common characters
This is an answer-chaining post, so in this challenge every answer (except the first answer) depends on the previous answer.
The goal of this challenge is to output the restricted characters. The ...
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Restricted Meta-Cat
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program in a language of your choice that, when given a string (limited to printable ASCII) as input, outputs a new program in the same ...
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What is the smallest possible binary output you can generate
Here is a challenge:
What is the shortest possible compiled program? Writing one line programs are fun, but they often lean on language libraries that get pulled into the final bits. How lean can you ...
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I irradiate your source code, you irradiate your output
Your task is to write a program \$p\$ which outputs a string \$s\$ with the same length as \$p\$, where \$s \neq p\$.
If I remove the \$n\$th byte from your program to get program \$q\$, then either \$...
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How Many Staircases [duplicate]
Problem
You're a staircase engineer on a house and realize you only have n rectangles to create a staircase. So you are tasked with finding the number of ways to ...
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Repeat your program to print Fibonacci numbers
Write a program fragment so that, when repeated N times it prints the Nth Fibonacci number. For example, if your program is print(x) then:
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Encrypting Emojis
Problem
You are tasked with creating a program that performs emoji encryption on a given string of emojis. In this encryption scheme, each emoji is replaced by a unique character (from ...
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