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Encouraging users to solve a challenge using as many different languages as they know. The end goal is to demonstrate how the same challenge is accomplished in different programming languages.

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Code Golf: Morris Sequence

The Challenge The shortest code by character count that will output the Morris Number Sequence. The Morris Number Sequence, also known as the Look-and-say sequence is a sequence of numbers that starts as follows: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211,…
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Code Golf: Tic Tac Toe

Post your shortest code, by character count, to check if a player has won, and if so, which. Assume you have an integer array in a variable b (board), which holds the Tic Tac Toe board, and the moves of the players where: 0 = nothing set 1 = player…
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Code Golf: The wave

The challenge The shortest code by character count to generate a wave from the input string. A wave is generated by elevating (line-1) a higher character, and degrading (line+1) a lower character. Equal characters are kept on the same line (no…
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Code golf: the Mandelbrot set

Usual rules for the code golf. Here is an implementation in python as an example from PIL import Image im = Image.new("RGB", (300,300)) for i in xrange(300): print "i = ",i for j in xrange(300): x0 = float( 4.0*float(i-150)/300.0…
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Code Golf: Number to Words

The code golf series seem to be fairly popular. I ran across some code that converts a number to its word representation. Some examples would be (powers of 2 for programming fun): 2 -> Two 1024 -> One Thousand Twenty Four 1048576 -> One Million…
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Code Golf: Sierpinski's Triangle

The challenge The shortest code, by character count to output an ASCII representation of Sierpinski's Triangle of N iterations made from the following ASCII triangle: /\ /__\ Input is a single positive number. Test cases Input: 2 Output: …
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Code Golf - Banner Generation

When thanking someone, you don't want to just send them an e-mail saying "Thanks!", you want to have something FLASHY: Input: THANKS!! Output: TTT H H AAA N N K K SSS !!! !!! T H H A A NNN K K S !!! !!! T HHH AAA NNN KK SSS !!! !!! T H H…
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Code Golf: Spider webs

The challenge The shortest code by character count to output a spider web with rings equal to user's input. A spider web is started by reconstructing the center ring: \_|_/ _/ \_ \___/ / | \ Then adding rings equal to the amount…
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Code Golf: Musical Notes

The challenge The shortest code by character count, that will output musical notation based on user input. Input will be composed of a series of letters and numbers - letters will represent the name of the note and the number will represent the…
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Code Golf: Seven Segments

The challenge The shortest code by character count to generate seven segment display representation of a given hex number. Input Input is made out of digits [0-9] and hex characters in both lower and upper case [a-fA-F] only. There is no need to…
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Code Golf: Leibniz formula for Pi

I recently posted one of my favourite interview whiteboard coding questions in "What's your more controversial programming opinion", which is to write a function that computes Pi using the Leibniz formula. It can be approached in a number of…
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Code Golf: Beehive

The challenge The shortest code by character count that will generate a beehive from user input. A beehive is defined a a grid of hexagons in a size inputted by the user as two positive numbers greater than zero (no need to validate input). The…
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Code Golf: 1x1 black pixel

Recently, I used my favorite image editor to make a 1x1 black pixel (which can come in handy when you want to draw solid boxes in HTML cheaply). Even though I made it a monochrome PNG, it came out to be 120 bytes! I mean, that's kind of steep. …
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Palindrome Golf

The goal: Any language. The smallest function which will return whether a string is a palindrome. Here is mine in Python: R=lambda s:all(a==b for a,b in zip(s,reversed(s))) 50 characters. The accepted answer will be the current smallest one - this…
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Code-Golf: Friendly Number Abbreviator

Based on this question: Is there a way to round numbers into a friendly format? THE CHALLENGE - UPDATED! (removed hundreds abbreviation from spec) The shortest code by character count that will abbreviate an integer (no decimals). Code should…
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