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Computing Pi with iF*ck
Objective
Compute \$\pi\$ using nothing but \$i\$ (\$\sqrt{-1}\$).
Guidelines
ONLY exponentiation and multiplication may be used (i.e. \$i^i\$ or \$ii\$)
No additional symbols may be used (so no ...
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Output five hundred different valid Roman numerals [closed]
Output any 500 different valid Roman numerals in the range 1 to 3999, in uppercase. Code golf.
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Show order equivalence between the rationals and the binary fractions
Write a function \$f\$ which takes rational numbers and gives binary fractions (rational numbers whose denominator is a power of two) which is bijective and preserves order.
That means:
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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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Make a pretty cryptic crossword grid
Write a function/program that generates an aesthetically pleasing square cryptic crossword grid for a given size N. You do not need to include numbers.
The rules for aesthetically pleasing are:
The ...
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Implement any rotation-invariant function on colored dodecahedrons
Each of a regular dodecahedron's 12 faces can be painted either red or blue. Your task is to implement a function \$f\$ that takes a painted dodecahedron (as 12 booleans, in whatever order and format ...
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Operators modify in place, fix my expressions [closed]
I'm using a language "MutFk" where the basic operators like "+" and "*" actually modify the left hand side of the expression, and also return the modified version. For ...
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Implement any 10-ary truth function with cyclic symmetry
Implement a function \$f\$ that takes 10 boolean inputs and returns a boolean.
The only requirement on \$f\$ is that it satisfies the identity
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f(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4,x_5,x_6,x_7,x_8,x_9,x_{10})=f(x_2,...
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Print 4 billion if statements
Recently (okay, December 2023, I'm a little late) there's been a meme going around about a program checking if a 32-bit unsigned integer is even or odd using four billion if statements:
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Figure out which of your friends reveals confidential information to the media!
Exposition
You send secret information to 100 of your friends, and the next day you discover that the information has been published! Who could have revealed it?
To determine that, you number your ...
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Tic-tac-toe encode them all
I decided to create a complete guide to the great game of tic-tac-toe.
I expected it to be extremely popular, so to save on paper while printing it I decided to encode all possible game positions.
I ...
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Implement a Monad
A monad is a type that wraps another type, that represents the available operations on the wrapped type. Monads have the following associated operations, where M is ...
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Convert to Chomsky normal form
Let a context-free language be specified by its production rules and start symbol, e.g.
S -> AbB | C
C -> b | c
B -> AA | AC
A -> a | ε
Here and in the ...
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Counterexample to Shapiro inequality
Input: A positive integer n such that n is even and greater than 12 or n is odd and greater than 23.
Output: A list of non-negative integers that violates Shapiro inequality.
Winner is shortest code. ...
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Output a 1-2-3-5-7... sequence
Follow-up of my previous challenge, inspired by @emanresu A's question, and proven possible by @att (Mathematica solution linked)
For the purposes of this challenge, a 1-2-3-5-7... sequence is an ...
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