ew frontend

@Lord_Poseidon What's wrong with frontend? .-.

@MrVoo nah I just suck at it

@Lord_Poseidon 😭

@Bookie0 frontend requires knowledge of several specific languages/libraries, this requires nothing but your brain

@FlaminHotValdez precisely

@FlaminHotValdez idk, frontend seems easier for me but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Bookie0 yeah but it requires knowledge of specific things. This challenge requires your brain and only the most basic programming knowledge(variables, loops, if, input/output).

Hmm.. I do know those basics, but I just can't think of something lol (most likely because this week I've been rahter distracted and away). Oh well! :D @FlaminHotValdez

@JeffreyChen13 Exponents aren't allowed

@MrVoo but whhyyyy

@kannibalistic Beeeeecause it's a challenge

@JeffreyChen13 You can do multiplication and exponents using addition. eg:

function mult(a, b) {
	let result = 0;
	for (let i = 0; i < a; i++) result += b;
	return result;
}
console.log(mult(0, 6)); // -> 0
console.log(mult(6, 5)); // -> 30
console.log(mult(9, 9)); // -> 81

@MattDESTROYER I am a Python coder, I have no idea what this is LOL

@JeffreyChen13 In python:

def mult(a, b):
	result = 0
	for i in range(a):
		result += b
	return result

print(mult(0, 6)); # -> 0
print(mult(6, 5)); # -> 30
print(mult(9, 9)); # -> 81

@MattDESTROYER Haha yes! I thought of that. It is multiplying but in the way of repeated addition. I thought of that too, just working on the Pygame parts in my code : )

@JeffreyChen13 Yep, you got it. Nice :)
You can even do long division manually, I used these tricks in my project.

@MattDESTROYER Yup!

@JeffreyChen13 Just repeated addition in a for loop, I did it like this:

def square(root):
  sum = 0

  for i in range(root):
     sum += root

  return root

@MattDESTROYER And to say, you really don't need that extra parameter b, because a and b are the same thing, you can just substitute b with a! Clean code there, yay!

def mult(a):
  result = 0
  for i in range(a):
    result += b
  return result

@JeffreyChen13 The parameter b was to enable you to do multiplication as well as squares. To be honest I think I recreated all the operators in my project manually lol. I also took a different approach to getting square roots to everyone else as far as I can tell.

@MattDESTROYER Nice!

@MattDESTROYER Lol you need to multiply?

@FlaminHotValdez It is quite a useful ability.

@MattDESTROYER Indeed, but it is not necessary for this challenge. ;)

@FlaminHotValdez You're really enjoying low-key flexing on everyone that you found such a unique solution, aren't you :P

@GhostKing007 Lol

@FlaminHotValdez what are you doing the Babylonian method?

@RayhanADev I don't know names lmao

@RayhanADev Not Babylonian. I don't think the method has a name, it's just based on logic. You can easily derive the result from simple algebra. (Ik this coz we used the same method) I gave an explanation on my spotlight page if you want to see it.

@ruiwenge2 yea, that's what I did. The only tag is #Weekly1

@ruiwenge2 Oh yeah, sorry about that! Just submit it without the hypen please :)

ok thanks @DynamicSquid @CodingEssence

@ruiwenge2 np

when are the monthly highlights for June going to be announced? @DynamicSquid

@ruiwenge2 https://replit.com/talk/announcements/Monthly-Tutorials/142403

@CodingEssence No, because log is related to exponents.

@DynamicSquid ok :(

@DynamicSquid How about abs()?

@CodingEssence abs() is perfectly fine :)

@DynamicSquid yay! :)

@kannibalistic ill just F A I L

@kannibalistic Input's will be reasonable, so don't worry about large numbers :)

@DynamicSquid thanks!

@IMayBeMe :)

@IMayBeMe well they've been reincarnated once before by yours truly

@JDOG787 yes!

@kannibalistic and do we get our scores in or email or something?

@kannibalistic Yeah. Don't worry, it's rare for plagiarism to happen. And if it does, just let me know :)

Also for your scores, you'll get a comment on your repl once it has been marked

@DynamicSquid thanksx =D

@LavernieChen It is a week after this post has been created, I suppose

@JeffreyChen13 Did it start at July 3? I'm not a daily checker

So i suppose it is july 10?

@LavernieChen No, if you move top to the post, today it will say "Posted 4 days ago" only if you live right now in America PST haha, if you are in another time zone, please convert, which means it would have started at July 1 (in my time zone), so it must be due at July 8.

@JeffreyChen13 Haha, Yes only in america not sure if time zone in america matters, should be same day

@LavernieChen Haha

@LavernieChen Friday morning when I wake up

@cuber1515 Do you have discord? Just DM Drone the submission. Or reply to my comment with your submission

ok, thanks @DynamicSquid

@Whippingdot Yes you can use that library, and the due date is anytime between when you publish to apps and the next challenge

@Whippingdot Yeah. Fuzzy and I already asked lol

good cause i deleted my python one when i learned that you could only submit it in one language :( @FlaminHotValdez

Thanks! @MrVoo

@FlaminHotValdez Whenever Drone looks at them :)

@spiceagent11 Uhhhhh... I mean... I guess? But you probably won't be giving a lot of point for that xD

@DEANKASOZI No :)

@DynamicSquid
:o, ok, good to know

@DynamicSquid
so you can't use it in any way where it will be dividing or multiplying something, string or integer?

@DEANKASOZI Nope. There can't be * or / in your code

@DynamicSquid
ik ._., like 5 different people told me that XD

@EducatedStrikeC well, you'd need an infinite object, as the set of perfect squares is infinite...

@Nayoar do be speaking fax here.

@TheDrone7 @EducatedStrikeC the other option would be to use psychic powers and predict exactly which numbers will be tested, and hard-code those only.

@Nayoar I mean, if you use a lazy language like Haskell technically that's possible :)

@Nayoar Yes the set of perfect squares is infinite, but patience of people to test them all is finite :)

@Nayoar Yes it is

@TheDrone7 great, thanks, I wasn't sure if it might be banned because idk if it uses / behind the scenes

@MrVoo Yes

@Th3Coder Yeah, it's allowed

@DynamicSquid thanks! Well, I can just replace it with loops and minuses anyway

@DEANKASOZI
what are the extra enters for?

@LavernieChen Nope

Thanks! @DynamicSquid

@JarodL

You can also not use any external libraries, or the square root functions of any internal libraries of any language you might be using, or any special square root or square operators specific to your language. Same goes for exponentiation operators/pre-defined functions - not allowed.

lol

@JarodL
you know, i actually did the exact same thing and they said we can't use exponents

@JarodL
actually, this a literal imitation of the code i did earlier, i guess were both looking at it that way

@DEANKASOZI This doesn't require advanced programming knowledge-just your brain! Basic knowledge should be all that's necessary

@FlaminHotValdez
ik, im trying to figure it out with my brain. i mean, im pretty sure im on the right track, though it depends on the answer for this question: for python, can we use the "pow(x, y)"?

@DEANKASOZI You can't use exponents

@DEANKASOZI No.

@FlaminHotValdez
yea, just found that out, im restarting

@zplusfour You can't use the division operator :)

btw js is not the future js sucks

@DynamicSquid WTF ok
wait what I didn't use js

@DynamicSquid I unpublished it

@zplusfour Your profile description says JS is the future

@DynamicSquid yeah yeah but the repl is not written in js :)
yknow what, ima change it

@zplusfour you used exponent operator lmao

@aa2dee2 no.

@VulcanWM I wouldn't risk it. Drone could score anytime. I would recommend publishing once you're certain it's done

okay thanks @DynamicSquid