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Task I often need to find the factorial of a number or the sum of all numbers up to a number when cheating on math tests. To help me with this, your task is to write $F$, a generalized version of ...

posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

Task I often need to find the factorial of a number or the sum of all numbers up to a number when cheating on math tests. To help me with this, your task is to write $F$, a generalized version of ...

14 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by gifti‭

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 33 bytes {×x←⊃(2⌷⍵)(÷⍨(/⍨)0=|)⍺×1⌷⍵:x∇⍵⋄⍺} Try it online! The first case doesn't work because it gets really big, but the other two do. The input is taken on the left a...

posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user‭

Scala, 78 67 64 bytes Saved 3 bytes thanks to Razetime Stream.iterate(_)(x=>math.pow(x,x%2+.5).toInt).takeWhile(_>1):+1 Try it in Scastie! Stream.iterate(_) //Make an infinite list by r...

posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user‭

Idea shamelessly stolen from caird and rak1507 Shuffle a subset of a list of unique, positive integers with uniform randomness, given the indices of that subset. For example, given the list $[A, B...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by General Sebast1an‭

Instead of the code-golf-tips tag, could we tag "Tips for golfing" questions with tips and code-golf instead? They can still be searched for, so I don't see a reason to make a special tag to repres...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by General Sebast1an‭

Scala, 119 bytes Saved 26 bytes after porting Moshi's solution! _ sortBy("y gree br sc bla oc pe rub ol v f li go ch m cre c s ro a l ru g pu w p o b"split " "indexWhere _.startsWith) Original...

posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user‭

Scala, 55 bytes (Stream from 1 map 1.0./scanLeft.0)(_+_)indexWhere _.<= Try it online! Written in a more sane manner: n => Stream.from(1).map(1.0/_).scanLeft(0.0)(_+_).indexWhere(_ &g...

posted 5y ago by user‭

Scala (-language:postfixOps), 4 solutions 1. Just 256: 256 2. Casting a character: +'Ā' The character Ā is 256 in decimal, and the unary + turns it into an Int. 3. Hashcode of a string: ...

posted 5y ago by user‭  ·  edited 5y ago by user‭

APL (ngn/apl), 6 bytes {∇¨⍳⍵} Try it online! Dyalog APL and dzaima/APL appear to not give empty vectors for ⍳0, so I used ngn/APL. I don't know how to turn on boxing there, though, so there'...

posted 4y ago by user‭

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 21 bytes {×⍵-+/∪⍵∨¯1↓⍳⍵}¨∘⍳⊢⌸⍳ Try it online! Returns a matrix (padded with zeroes) where the first row is deficient numbers, the second is perfect numbers, and the thi...

posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user‭

Vyxal, 30 28 25 bytes Saved 1 4 bytes thanks to Aaron Miller ƛ∆K-±";£kɽƛ¥D„£_'t¥=;vṪ,£ Try it Online! A rather pitiful answer, but hey, it works. Gives deficient numbers, then perfect numbers...

posted 4y ago by user‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user‭

Scala -language:postfixOps, 2 bytes 1& Try it online! 1 for odd, 0 for even. Scala, 3 bytes _%2 Try it online! 1 for odd, 0 for even.

posted 4y ago by user‭

Answering with languages newer than the challenge should absolutely be allowed Most of the time, when a language is newer than a challenge, it's just a coincidence. By not allowing people to answe...

posted 4y ago by user‭

Scala, 52 bytes Stream.from(1).filter(x=>x%(x+"":\0)(_+_-48)<1).take Try it in Scastie! Woo, 3 deprecation warnings! (okay, one of them could be fixed but I like to live dangerously) St...

posted 3y ago by user‭  ·  edited 3y ago by user‭