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Imposes a restriction on the source code used to solve the challenge, for example, having no numbers in the source code.
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Write two very different programs with the same characters
Your task is to write two programs/functions, in the same language.
Program 1: Verify that two inputs are anagrams of each other.
Program 2: Verify that two inputs differ from each other at every ...
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Output your user ID
Output your numeric user ID. Do not use 0-9 in your code. Code golf.
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Reconstruct your source from separate punctuation and non-punctuation
Oh dear. An overzealous cleaner has separated out the punctuation in your source code.
Write a program or function that, when passed its source code separated into punctuation and non-punctuation (but ...
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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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Output the 97th ASCII character (or "a") without using strings and numbers [duplicate]
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If this question contains something copied from some other question. This is definitely not my fault since i didn't knew the question existed
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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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Smallest integer \$n\$ such that \$\frac{\sqrt{\log_2{n}}}{(\log_2 {\log_2 n})^2} > 1\$
Write code that outputs the smallest integer \$n > 5\$ such that \$\frac{\sqrt{\log_2{n}}}{(\log_2 {\log_2 n})^2} > 1\$. Your code may have at most one digit in its source code. You can use ...
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Literate Programming in Base 26
Your task is to convert non-empty strings - between strings using the 26 letters, and programs, which are strings of bytes, where each byte has 256 possible values. You should use the same codepage ...
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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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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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Do you win a Numeric Mahjong?
Background
Numeric Mahjong is a hypothetical variation of Japanese Mahjong, played with nonnegative integers instead of Mahjong tiles. Given a list of nonnegative integers, it is a winning hand if it ...
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Magic OEIS formulae (Robbers' thread)
This is the robbers' thread. See the cops' thread here.
In this cops and robbers challenge, the cops will be tasked with writing an algorithm that computes some function of their choice, while the ...
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Magic OEIS formulae (Cops' thread)
This is the cops' thread. See the robbers' thread here.
In this cops and robbers challenge, the cops will be tasked with writing an algorithm that computes some function of their choice, while the ...
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Wrt "Hello World" prgrm bt wth n vwls
Create A "Hello, World!" program but without any vowels. Winner is the program with the least bytes.
Rules:
No vowels are allowed in the code.
Must print to STDOUT
Must be a full program.
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Output a Latin square with a program which is a Latin square
A Latin square of order n is text which is arranged as a square of n lines by n columns, contains n different characters, and each character appears once in each line and column. For example, here is ...
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