Programming

Description First they took our jerbs, now they're taking our puzzles! (with your help) Today we're gonna find a way to solve jigsaw puzzles using computers Input Description As I am no designer the input will be purely numerical, feel free to make some visual version of the jigsaw puzzles :) You will first be given the dimension as X, Y Afterwards you will be given list of puzzle pieces and what type their 4 sides connect to (given as up, right, down, left) Their side-connection is given as a number, They connect with their negated number this means that a 1 and -1 connects, 2 and -2 connects etc. 0 means that it doesnt connect with anything. Assume pieces are rotated in the correct direction. fx: 2, 2 0: 0,1,2,0 1: 0,0,2,-1 2: -2,0,0,2 3: -2,-2,0,0 Output Description Output is a 2D picture/matrix of the pieces in their correct position for the example this would be 0 1 3 2 Challenge Input Challenges are generated, so there is a slight chanc...

Description In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the sum of its integer part and the reciprocal of another number, then writing this other number as the sum of its integer part and another reciprocal, and so on. A continued fraction is an expression of the form             1     x + ----------                1         y + -------                   1             z + ----                  ... and so forth, where x, y, z, and such are real numbers, rational numbers, or complex numbers. Using Gauss notation, this may be abbreviated as [x; y, z, ...] To convert a continued fraction to an ordinary fraction, we just simplify from the right side, which may be an improper fraction, ...

Description Today's challenge will be to create a program to decipher a seven segment display, commonly seen on many older electronic devices. Input Description For this challenge, you will receive 3 lines of input, with each line being 27 characters long (representing 9 total numbers), with the digits spread across the 3 lines. Your job is to return the represented digits. You don't need to account for odd spacing or missing segments. Output Description Your program should print the numbers contained in the display. Challenge Inputs     _  _     _  _  _  _  _   | _| _||_||_ |_   ||_||_|   ||_  _|  | _||_|  ||_| _|     _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _ |_| _| _||_|| ||_ |_| _||_   | _| _||_||_| _||_||_  _|  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _ |_  _||_ |_| _|  ||_ | ||_|  _||_ |_||_| _...

Description A Kolakoski sequence (A000002) is an infinite sequence of symbols {1, 2} that is its own run-length encoding. It alternates between "runs" of symbols. The sequence begins: 12211212212211211221211212211... The first three symbols of the sequence are 122, which are the output of the first two iterations. After this, on the i-th iteration read the value x[i] of the output (one-indexed). If i is odd, output x[i] copies of the number 1. If i is even, output x[i] copies of the number 2. There is an unproven conjecture that the density of 1s in the sequence is 1/2 (50%). In today's challenge we'll be searching for numerical evidence of this by tallying the ratio of 1s and 2s for some initial N symbols of the sequence. Input Description As input you will receive the number of outputs to generate and tally. Output Description As output, print the ratio of 1s to 2s in the first n symbols. Sample Input 10 100 1000 Sample Output 5:5 49:51 502:498...

Description DNA sequences are made up of a 4 character alphabet - A, C, T or G, that describe the nucleotide bases in a gene sequence. To ascertain the sequence of DNA, scientists use chemical methods to identify the component nucleotides in a method called DNA sequencing. DNA shotgun sequencing is a method whereby DNA subsequences of the same larger sequence are produced at massive parallel scale by DNA sequencing methods, and the overlap between segments is used to reconstruct the input gene. This is a fast and accurate method, and is dropping in price. Shotgun sequencing was used to perform the first entire sequence of a human's DNA, for example. For additional background information, see Wikipedia on shotgun sequencing. You're working in a DNA laboratory and you have to reconstruct a gene's sequence from a series of fragments! Formal Input Description You'll be given a series of DNA sequence fragments, which include overlaps with neighbor sequences, but not ...

Description According to Goldbach’s weak conjecture, every odd number greater than 5 can be expressed as the sum of three prime numbers. (A prime may be used more than once in the same sum.) This conjecture is called "weak" because if Goldbach's strong conjecture (concerning sums of two primes) is proven, it would be true. Computer searches have only reached as far as 1018 for the strong Goldbach conjecture, and not much further than that for the weak Goldbach conjecture. In 2012 and 2013, Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott released a pair of papers that were able to unconditionally prove the weak Goldbach conjecture. Your task today is to write a program that applies Goldbach's weak conjecture to numbers and shows which 3 primes, added together, yield the result. Input Description You'll be given a series of numbers, one per line. These are your odd numbers to target. Examples: 11 35 Output Description Your program should emit three prime number...

Description "The Alphabet Cipher", published by Lewis Carroll in 1868, describes a Vigenère cipher (thanks /u/Yadkee for the clarification) for passing secret messages. The cipher involves alphabet substitution using a shared keyword. Using the alphabet cipher to tranmit messages follows this procedure: You must make a substitution chart like this, where each row of the alphabet is rotated by one as each letter goes down the chart. All test cases will utilize this same substitution chart.   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz B bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza C cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzab D defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc E efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd F fghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcde G ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdef H hijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefg I ijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefgh J jklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghi K klmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghij L lmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk M mnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijkl N nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm O opqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmn P pqrstuvw...