Answer by Neil for Shortest path to open a letter lock
Charcoal, 19 bytesＩ⁻¹³﹪⁻¹³Ｅθ⁻℅ι℅§ηκ²⁶Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Explanation: Similar to @Tbw's method, but subtracts the 13 in a different way to save bytes. (@l4m2's method...
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Retina 0.8.2, 90 bytesO$#`.$.%`¶M!`..(.).$&-$1%{`.*?([A-Z])(-?)(#*)\1.*$2$.3T`L`ZL`^.T`ZL`L`.$.-#$&#Try it online! Takes input on separate lines but link is to test suite that splits on commas...
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Perl 5-lF, 48 bytessay+($_=(ord shift@F)-ord)-($_>13)*26for<>=~/./gTry it online!
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin Cruijssen for Shortest path to open a letter lock
05AB1E, 11 bytesÇ`-13+₂%13-Port of @Tbw's Uiua's answer, so also uses negative values for down and positive for up.Try it online or verify all test cases.Explanation:Ç # Convert both strings in the...
View ArticleAnswer by doubleunary for Shortest path to open a letter lock
Google Sheets, 45 bytes=index(mod(code(A1:A4)-code(B1:B4)+13,26)-13)Put the position in cells A1:A4, the combination in cells B1:B4 and the formula in cell C1. The output will be in positive/negative...
View ArticleAnswer by pajonk for Shortest path to open a letter lock
R, 38 bytes\(s,t,`+`=utf8ToInt)(+s-+t--13)%%26-13Attempt This Online!Port of @Tbw's Uiua answer.R, 42 bytes\(s,t)strtoi(paste0(t,57,s),36)%%97%%26-13Attempt This Online!Port of @l4m2's JavaScript...
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Jelly, 7 bytesO_/æ%13Try it online!A monadic link taking a list of two strings and returning a list of integers with negative integers as down and positive as up.ExplanationO | To codepoints _/ |...
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Scala 3, 78 75 bytesA port of @l4m2's Javascript code in Scala.Saved 3 bytes thanks to the comment of @l4m2(x,y)=>x.zip(y).map{case(c,v)=>Integer.parseInt(s"${c}57${v}",36)%97%26-13}Attempt This...
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APL(Dyalog Unicode), 15 bytes SBCS13-26|13+-⍥⎕UCSTry it on APLgolf!A tacit function which takes strings on the left and right and returns an array of positive and negative values. Port of my Uiua...
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Uiua 0.8.0, 10 bytes SBCS-13◿26+13-Try on Uiua Pad!Outputs positive and negative values.18 bytes SBCS+@a↥0⊃±⌵-13◿26+13-Try on Uiua Pad!Outputs 2 arrays, values and letters. Up is "a" and down is...
View ArticleAnswer by l4m2 for Shortest path to open a letter lock
JavaScript (Node.js), 51 bytesx=>y=>x.map((c,i)=>parseInt(c+57+y[i],36)%97%26-13)Try it online!Output pos/negJavaScript (Node.js), 68...
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This quite literally came to me in a dream.A common combination padlock design has letters on the dials so you can set the combination to a word. Unfortunately, I can't read, but I can count....
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