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How many bits in the Apple Logo?
I'm pretty sure WeShall has it, but I'd like to point out that it might be as high as
if we assume that
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An Extremely Simple Programming Language
First, define a macro for used as
that takes a variable i and any lines of CODE. It expands ...
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A strange computer programming language
First, let's change our interpretation of the rational numbers as
As you may see, if we start with $2^a3^b$
Next
What's so special about it?
Here, we will get
The next part is actually
Leaving ...
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You are almost there
You are
I am, in a way, half of eight
but not four - not that straight.
I am, in a way, half of infinite
my location is always definite.
I can mean not only not positive for a logician
but also ...
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The Computer Science Department
I'm not convinced this is the final solution (since it does not seem to use all the poster information):
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The Computer Science Department
Using Jonathan Allan's results, I suspect the final answer to be
How I reached this:
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Ted's answer had Thomas shocked! "He... he's alive..." he realized
I've given up and tried to bruteforce it - with little regards to what could happen to my machine.
I'm importing every builtin module and evaluating the input on every function they've got. As I don't ...
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An Extremely Simple Programming Language
Considering that the main stated puzzles have been solved, whole problem kinda transformed into free-form "busy beaver"-esk challenge/analysis...
Just to give some upper bounds on ...
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Normal & counterparts
To me, this appears to describe:
We are brothers of like paths
order is vital to us.
There is the straightforward one,
always climbing till he's done.
The other two can't stand the heights;
we ...
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Ted's answer had Thomas shocked! "He... he's alive..." he realized
Hint 3 makes it sound like the functions are
“He’s alive” is a weird reaction to that, but there you go.
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Little Red Solving Hood goes one-stop swapping
The swap can be done with 4 references using 6 "goodies" as follows:
Breaking it down:
Approach to the problem:
Using the above observations, I started looking for ways to do this, and noticed ...
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At The Square Brackets
I think you are a:
The sky is so clear
As if I am in emptiness.
"Insert coin here"
Says the arcade just emplaced.
I will bring my eraser
If my paper is swapped with a scrap.
Nothing to extract ...
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What is a Limited Word™
My guess:
Explanation:
For the Limited words™:
For the Non-Limited words™:
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IBM Research Puzzle – 5-ops implementation of erasure code
Posting a partial answer after clue 2:
Let's see then. (Doing binary operations in my head, so please forgive any errors.)
A number of the form $2^M -1$ is a string of "1" bits in binary, ...
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