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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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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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15 answers
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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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7 votes
1 answer
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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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5 votes
9 answers
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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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6 votes
0 answers
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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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21 votes
8 answers
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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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8 votes
8 answers
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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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9 answers
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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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