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Feb 13, 2021 at 11:26 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 12, 2021 at 12:31 comment added user202729 @Leo Just an arbitrary value that I feel is large enough...
Feb 12, 2021 at 11:55 comment added Leo Also, it's not important, but why 10000 for the board size? At least for A there's a very easy upper bound of 365
Feb 12, 2021 at 11:54 comment added user202729 @Leo I don't plan to accept an answer anyway. The winning criteria is simply to give people things to do.
Feb 12, 2021 at 11:53 comment added Leo I see, I like it but it may need some clarifying. For example in the header I would put only the values of A and B and the combined score. Then I would add a clause like the ones in answer-chaining challenges: "Once there have not been any improvements to the combined score for X days, the last submission to improve the score will be accepted as the winner"
Feb 12, 2021 at 10:32 comment added user202729 So, by definition, all the solutions that is not strictly-worse is "worth posting" (improves the combined score).
Feb 12, 2021 at 10:32 comment added user202729 @Leo Obviously the combined one. Note that the criteria is chosen so that the combined score is always better than or equal to the normal score, and the combined score is always better than the previous combined score.
Feb 12, 2021 at 10:29 comment added Leo The problem with the combined score is that you have two scores again, the "normal" one and the "combined" one... Does only one or the other count for "victory"?
Feb 12, 2021 at 10:00 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 12, 2021 at 9:54 comment added user202729 @Leo as explained in the linked meta post -- (did I explain it clearly enough?) that method would allow essentially the same "every solutions win" situation by letting every such "winning" solution improves the "combined" score. (and is the only one that I can come up with with that condition)
Feb 12, 2021 at 9:53 comment added user202729 @Leo Because it doesn't encourage these solutions, obviously? -- (I think that the solution with minimum A is pretty interesting, but I'd like to see a solution that generates reasonably-good parametrized solutions too.)
Feb 12, 2021 at 8:57 comment added Leo to me it looks like the given method to generate a single score from A and B only adds confusion, especially the "combined score" part... what's the advantage compared to a simpler formula like A^2+B^2? (I would be in favour of just using A and B and letting all pareto-optimal solutions win, but I understand that at the moment there's not enough consensus for this)
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Feb 12, 2021 at 7:57 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 11, 2021 at 6:48 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 9, 2021 at 1:41 comment added user202729 @Bubbler Fixed.
Feb 9, 2021 at 1:41 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 8, 2021 at 23:24 comment added Bubbler For the lack of sandbox feedback, I usually leave my challenges for at least a week, regularly asking for feedback in the chat (at least 2 or 3 times before moving to main).
Feb 8, 2021 at 23:21 comment added Bubbler A minor nitpick: In your Python code, adding string to a number is invalid. I guess you meant to take the inputs as strings, e.g. m1 = "0" etc.
Feb 8, 2021 at 23:20 comment added Bubbler A post is considered as a consensus only if it's at >= +10 and upvotes >= 2*downvotes. So +5/-4 (at the time of writing) is closer to a controversy than a consensus. I guess many people have just feelings without enough justification about whether it's fine or not. I personally view it as a good challenge, so I upvoted it.
Feb 8, 2021 at 2:32 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 2, 2021 at 10:42 comment added user202729 @Dingus +1 is not a consensus?
Feb 2, 2021 at 10:37 comment added Dingus There's no consensus on that meta question. I think you should state that if two answers have the same A+B then they score the same.
Feb 2, 2021 at 10:19 comment added user202729 @Dingus No, see the meta post about challenge having multiple winning conditions. codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19041/…
Feb 2, 2021 at 8:43 comment added Dingus If two answers have the same A+B, is the one with lower A or lower B considered better, or is there no tie-breaker?
Feb 1, 2021 at 11:06 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Feb 1, 2021 at 3:45 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 31, 2021 at 14:45 comment added user202729 Or it could be that the challenge is simply a little hard to read.)
Jan 30, 2021 at 17:16 comment added user202729 (ah, right. The sandbox is still as inactive as usual.)
Jan 30, 2021 at 17:15 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 28, 2021 at 10:20 history answered user202729 CC BY-SA 4.0