Questions tagged [simulation]
For challenges involving simulation.
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Simplified Piet Interpreter
Background Piet is an esoteric stack-based programming language in which programs are images meant to resemble abstract paintings. To keep the challenge from being unnecessarily complex, you will not ...
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Climbing the Bookshelf
Introduction You're making a robot that can navigate a set of books of varying heights. It can climb books and jump off books, but if the distance is too big it will stop to prevent damage. To figure ...
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A Suitable Mission
Summer Klerance, a senior in college, is what her teachers refer to as GBL*. Students in her probability class have been assigned individual problems to work on and turn in as part of their final ...
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Produce an image based on an elementary cellular automata ruleset
What is elementary cellular automata? Since I'm not sure I'll be able to explain this so that somebody who has never heard of this is able to understand, I'm giving an explanation from https://...
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Simulate a model neuron
An Izhikevich neuron is a simple yet quite effective model of a biological neuron, designed for use in a discrete time-stepping simulation. In this golfing challenge, you will be implementing this ...
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52 Week Challenge [duplicate]
The 52 week challenge is a way to save money. For example, Week 1, you save $1.00. Week 2 you save $2.00, and it continues through the year, adding one more dollar to each week’s savings goal. By Week ...
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Kill it With Fire
Disclaimer: The story told within this question is entirely fictional, and invented solely for the purpose of providing an intro. I am an evil farmer, and to drive up the price of wheat in my area, ...
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Fire propagation simulator
Suppose we have a matrix like this: 11111 12221 12321 12221 11111 This matrix represents a terrain, and each cell represents a portion of terrain. The number in ...
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