Questions tagged [random]
Tasks involving random numbers and/or output.
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Flip a coin in Lost
Lost is a 2-D programming language where the start position and direction of the ip are entirely random.
Today we will be writing a Lost program which uses this randomness to simulate a coin flip.
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Find the odd one out
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The goal of this challenge is to generate and output a \$16 \times 32\$ (height \$\times\$ width) grid where all cells contain a decoy
character, except for a random single cell that ...
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Spot The Difference
Challenge
Generate two \$16 \times 16\$ grids, each initially filled with "@" symbols and spaces. Each cell in the grids should be independently filled with an "@" or a space, with ...
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Alternating Random Series Sum To \$N\$ [closed]
Challenge
Given a positive integer \$N \ge 3\$, generate an alternating series of \$N\$ random numbers within the range \$[1, N]\$, such that their sum equals \$N\$. Expressed mathematically as
$$N = ...
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3D Hide & Seek Word Puzzle
Challenge
Create a 3D word puzzle where the cube's dimensions match the length of the input word. The uppercase word (A-Z) must be validly placed within the cube in one of the fixed orientations: ...
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Yin-Yang Table Generator [closed]
I want an n*n table that is filled with black or white and the following conditions are satisfied in it:
All cells of a 2*2 square in this table should not be the same color.
All black and white ...
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Bingo Cards SVG Code [duplicate]
Generate the contents of an SVG file containing 6 bingo cards. Winner is the one that uses the shortest code. A qualifying answer has an output that can be directly pasted in a blank to get the ...
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Be big more often
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You are a manager at a large number factory. You want to show everyone your business is doing well, by showing randomly chosen samples. Unfortunately, your business is not doing that well. But ...
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XOR of independent Bernoulli variables
In probability theory, a Bernoulli variable is a random variable which has a single parameter \$p\$, and is equal to 1 with probability \$p\$, and 0 with probability \$1-p\$.
In this challenge, there ...
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Elect the Doge of Venice
The Venetian election system was... complicated.
The Great Council came together and put in an urn the ballots of all the councilors who were older than 30. The youngest councilor went to St Mark's ...
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A randomly colored walk
Given two inputs, a distance \$d\$ and a number \$n\$ output a list of \$n\$ random colors which each have distance \$d\$ from the previous.
Background
A random walk is a path which is defined by ...
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Random point inside boundary
Given an ASCII art with simple closed paths using | and - (pipes and dashes), output a random point inside the boundary.
Eg. ...
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Generate an emoticon
Your task is to generate an emoticon of three characters, the first character being one eye, the second the mouth, and the third another eye. Each eye is a random one of these characters: ...
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Output a random value from the last 16 values outputted
Output the numbers 1-16 (or any other set of 16 distinct items). Then, repeatedly, output a random value chosen uniformly from the last 16 items outputted.
After the same item is printed 16 times in a ...
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Create a bingo card generator
Bingo
Bingo is a numbers game where players match randomly drawn numbers to the numbers on their cards. Each bingo card is a square grid with 25 spaces, and the columns of the grid are labeled with ...
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