Tags
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
Code-golf is a competition to solve a particular problem in the fewest bytes of source code.
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A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.
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The challenge involves mathematics in some central way. Also consider using more specific tags, listed in the tag wiki info.
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A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of numbers.
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This challenge involves creating or parsing pictures using text characters as the paint. Typically this uses only 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963.
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For challenges involving sequences, typically of numbers following some pattern.
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A code challenge is a competition for creative ways to solve a programming puzzle with an objective winning criterion not covered by other scoring tags (e.g. code-golf).
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A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of arrays.
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For challenges which involve deciding whether or not the input meets certain criteria, and outputting some data, representing that decision.
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Kolmogorov complexity, informally, is the amount of code it takes to describe or produce a constant object, such as a string or image. When posting a challenge in this category, please make sure it ad…
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Number theory involves properties and relationships of numbers, primarily positive integers.
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A popularity-contest is a competition where the answer with the highest vote tally (upvotes minus downvotes) wins. As these are frequently closed, read the tag info and post your challenge to the sand…
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This challenge is intended to be solved by using, manipulating, or creating shapes or other geometric structures.
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For questions asking for tips on golfing in a specific language, doing well in certain challenge tag, or improving a particular piece of code.
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This challenge involves drawing pictures on a screen or generating image files. For pure ASCII art contests, use [ascii-art] instead. If participants can choose between graphics and ASCII art, use bot…
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For challenges about identifying and manipulating prime numbers
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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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This challenge is generally based upon, related to, or simulates a game or some portion of one.
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for challenges involving matrices. A matrix, also known as a 2D array, is a list of numbers arranged in a rectangle with rows and columns.
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This challenge is intended to be solved by using, manipulating, accepting as input, outputting, or calculating calendar dates or clock times.
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A quine is a program which produces its source as output. This tag indicates that the challenge is related to quines.
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denotes challenges where parsing input is a large / the main part of the challenge.
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This challenge is intended to be solved by sorting, ordering, or otherwise organizing some set of data.
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The winner of a fastest-code challenge is determined by the runtime performance of the submissions. For fairness, all submissions should be benchmarked on the same machine, which usually means all sub…
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For challenges regarding graphs, mathematical structures used to model relations between objects.
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A permutation is a particular ordering of some list of objects. Problems tagged with permutation usually involve finding or generating permutations, including anagrams of text.
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For challenges that involve the physical layout or physical manipulation of source-code.
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Conversion of numbers between positional numeral systems. Most common systems are decimal, binary, hexadecimal etc.
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King-of-the-hill indicates a game where the submissions interact with and compete against each other in some form of game. Competitions which pit programs against each other without interaction should…
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For challenges which consist of two adversary (and asymmetric) sub-challenges.
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