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What is the dumbest code ever made that has become famous?

BogoSort is a moderately well-known algorithm to sort a list. Here’s how it works:

  1. Put the elements of the list in a random order.
  2. Check if the list is sorted. If not, start over.

BogoSort has an average running time of O((n+1)!), which is not very good. It is also the rare algorithm which has NO worst-case running time; if the input has at least two elements, it is possible for the algorithm to run for any amount of time.

Source: Quora

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CodeEval: Penultimate Word

Challenge Description:

Write a program which finds the next-to-last word in a string.

Input Sample:

Your program should accept as its first argument a path to a filename. Input example is the following

some line with text
another line

Each line has more than one word.

Output Sample:

Print the next-to-last word in the following way.

with
another

Solution:

 

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CodeEval: Shortest Repetition

Challenge Description:

Write a program to determine the shortest repetition in a string.
A string is said to have period p if it can be formed by concatenating one or more repetitions of another string of length p. For example, the string “xyzxyzxyzxyz” has period 3, since it is formed by 4 repetitions of the string “xyz”. It also has periods 6 (two repetitions of “xyzxyz”) and 12 (one repetition of “xyzxyzxyzxyz”).

Input Sample:

Your program should accept as its first argument a path to a filename. Each line will contain a string of up to 80 non-blank characters. E.g.

abcabcabcabc
bcbcbcbcbcbcbcbcbcbcbcbcbcbc
dddddddddddddddddddd
adcdefg

Output Sample:

Print out the smallest period of the input string. E.g.

3
2
1
7

Solution:

 

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CodeEval: PASS TRIANGLE

CHALLENGE DESCRIPTION:

By starting at the top of the triangle and moving to adjacent numbers on the row below, the maximum total from top to bottom is 27.

   5
  9 6
 4 6 8
0 7 1 5

5 + 9 + 6 + 7 = 27

INPUT SAMPLE:

Your program should accept as its first argument a path to a filename. Input example is the following:

5
9 6
4 6 8
0 7 1 5

You make also check full input file which will be used for your code evaluation.

OUTPUT SAMPLE:

The correct output is the maximum sum for the triangle. So for the given example the correct answer would be 27

Solution