Questions tagged [code-golf]

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Code Golf: Least Common Multiple

"CodeGolf" challenge: write the shortest practical Least Common Multiple function that: Does not use built in GCD, LCM or any related fuctions Accepts multiple arguments in any order, e.g. LCM[3, 20, 6] In the spirit of the original, obfuscated is…
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Make the code shorter for solving Fizz buzz

Here is Fizz buzz Write a program that prints the integers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of 3 print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of 5 print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both 3 and 5 print "FizzBuzz". I…
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Celebration: How to golf a marriage with a prefix free code

We all know a conspicuous member of our community got hitched recently. As most of us are not in Malta, and weren't able to fly there, I thought of a celebration question. Sort of. The challenge is golfing a function (Mma only) that finds a prefix…
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Rewrite code with fewer characters

How could I rewrite the following code such that the output (evaluation result) is the same, but is obtained from code having less than 30 characters in total? Table[Table[{b - a, b}, {b,8}],{a,8}], I tried for more than an hour, but I can't find…
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