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For challenges related to the subdivision of a set into smaller disjoint sets. This also includes the subdivision of ordered collections like lists, and non-discrete sets like intervals. Challenges should carefully define the partition concept being used.
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Half Price for Every Second Pizza
PizzaTata is a popular restaurant specializing in pizza delivery. Customers can order pizzas by phone. And each order is charged by the sum of pizza prices and the delivery fee.
Pizza Prices: The ...
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Solve the "word break problem" in a single line of code
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Solve this problem in the fewest number of bytes of code possible.
Write code that takes a string \$str\$ and a dictionary-list of words \$d\$ and finds all combinations of words from \$d\$ ...
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Night hike partitioning
We want to go on a night hike with the youth group, but of course not everyone has their torch, even though we told them we planned to split up. What options are there for group formation if n teens ...
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Find the fairest partition of a list
Given a list of positive integers, partition the list into two sublists such that the absolute value of the difference of the sums over the two sublists is minimal.
The output of the program should be ...
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Help, I can't bloody well memorize this number!
The Brits aren't exactly known for being good at memorizing stuff. That's why scientists need newspaper articles to find those who are, and that's why it shouldn't be a surprise that they forget more ...
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Write a set as a union of ranges
In this challenge, we define a range similarly to Python's range function: A list of positive integers with equal differences between them. For example, ...
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Minimum partition with non-empty intersections
Given a set of intervals \$\mathcal{I} = \{I_1, \ldots, I_m\}\$, where each interval \$I_j\$ is represented by its bounds \$(a_j, b_j)\$, find a partition \$\mathcal{T}\$ of \$\mathcal{I}\$ of minimal ...
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Is this substring list ambiguous?
Given a set of substrings, such as [ca, ar, car, rd], it's possible to create infinitely many strings by concatting them together. Some examples of this for the ...
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Incomparable partitions
A partition of a list \$A\$ is a way of splitting \$A\$ up into smaller parts, concretely it is list of lists that when concatenated gives back \$A\$.
For example ...
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Cut along the lines
In this challenge you will take as input a non-empty list of binary values (these can be booleans or integers on the range 0-1), you should output all the ways to partition the list into non-empty ...
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Divisible subset sums
Inspired by the recent 3Blue1Brown video
Consider, for some positive integer \$n\$, the set \$\{1, 2, ..., n\}\$ and its subsets. For example, for \$n = 3\$, we have
$$\emptyset, \{1\}, \{2\}, \{3\}, \...
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There's more than one way to skin a set
Given a set of positive integers \$ S \$, output the set of all positive integers \$ n \$ such that \$ n \$ can be made by summing a subset of \$ S \$ in more than one different way, i.e., that are ...
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Third Stirling numbers of the second kind
\$\left\{ n \atop k \right\}\$ or \$S(n, k)\$ is a way of referring to the Stirling numbers of the second kind, the number of ways to partition a set of \$n\$ items into \$k\$ non-empty subsets. For ...
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Square chunk my matrix
Your challenge is to write a function/program that takes a matrix of integers m and a number n as input and:
Splits m into n by n chunks
Replaces each chunk with the most common value in that chunk (...
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The number of tilings of a grid
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A block is any rectangular array of squares, specified by its dimensions \$(w,h)\$. A grid is any finite ordered list of blocks. For example, \$\lambda = ((3,2),(3,1),(1,2))\$ defines a grid.
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