Questions tagged [tips]
For questions asking for tips on golfing in a specific language, doing well in certain challenge tag, or improving a particular piece of code.
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Choosing the best approach for developing a system for buyers to sell to multiple sellers on your market place [closed]
I have been messing around with the PayPal API v2, and I have asked a Question with no reply of what to do next once the seller onboards. So then I looked at Braintree and started to get used to that ...
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How can I reduce the characters in the following python code? [closed]
The following code is 47 characters.
print(("Ekki v","V")["COV"in input()]+"eikur!")
How can it be reduced to 46 or less?
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Tips for golfing in Emmental
What general tips do you have for golfing in Emmental? It is a self-modifying language defined by a meta-circular interpreter, so I wonder if there are tips for golfing for this esoteric programming ...
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Tips for golfing in 𝘈𝘤𝘤\$\it{!!}\$
What general tips do you have for golfing in Acc!!? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to Acc!! (e.g. "remove comments&...
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Situations when recursion helps [closed]
Recursion is actually quite powerful, sometimes its doesn't look like that child problem of itself exist, but recursion is just helpful.
One case per answer.
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Shortest Float32Array to Int32Array conversion for audio processing
I'm currently converting a Float32Array to an Int32Array for input to a real-time audio raw PCM to MP3 recording application.
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Electra "Hello World!" [duplicate]
This will be a bit of a different challenge. Back in 2023, I developed a 2D esolang called Electra, and looking back at my hello world program, (which is 582 bytes by the way) I see a lot of room for ...
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Solving Reverse Polish Notation with GolfScript and Eval Function
I am exploring a unique approach to the classic problem of Reverse Polish Notation on code.golf. Unlike the conventional solutions, my focus lies on leveraging the ...
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Tips for golfing in Uiua
What general tips do you have for golfing in Uiua?
I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are specific to Uiua. (e.g. "remove comments" would not be ...
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Shortest way to print the first 20 numbers in the fibbonacci sequence with python3 [duplicate]
I was wondering if it was possible to make this code even shorter than it already was.
f=lambda x:f(x-1)+f(x-2) if x>1 else 1
[print(f(i))for i in range(20)]
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Shortest C code to display argv in-order
I recently tried to produce the shortest C code possible to display all its command line arguments (which are stored in argv).
I ended with a relatively small piece of code, and I was wondering if ...
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Tips for Golfing in Vyxal 3
The reason for this question is because I made a deadlineless bounty and I need a tips question to link in the bounty
Vyxal 3 is the third major version of the Vyxal golfing language. As it is ...
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Shortest CSS selector to select ALL html elements, without using asterisk *
What is the shortest selector (by character count) to select ALL html elements on a web page, without using asterisk (*)? Some examples are the following:
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How can I shorten a C code that repeatedly outputs a number?
I wrote a code that separates the numbers from 1 to 9999 by comma
void p(n){printf("%d,",n);if(n<9999){p(n+1);}}main(){p(1);}
Is there a way to make ...
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Binary expansion and partition numbers [closed]
Not sure if it's correct to ask such a question on this site, but let's try.
Let a(n) be a sequence of positive integer such that a(1) = 1. To reproduce the sequence a(n) through itself, use the ...
