155
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146
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Paint Starry Night, objectively, in 1kB of code
Pyth (no built-in compression), score 4695.07 4656.03 4444.82
Pyth’s only image-related functionality is a builtin to write a matrix of RGB triples as an image file. So the crazy idea here is to ...
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Without using numbers, get the highest salary you can. But don't exaggerate!
bash, $127127
x;echo \$$?$?
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Since the x command doesn't exist, it errors and sets the exit code to ...
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105
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Accepted
Build a Markdown bomb
Blockquotes, 137,469/256 = 536.99
6,908 characters, 511 new lines, 130,050 spaces
Markdown sure handles nested block-quotes oddly. Each > character gets turned ...
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Write Moby Dick, approximately
Node.js, 2*224 + 524279 = 524727
Please refer to the change log at the end of this post for score updates.
A function taking and returning a byte.
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80
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Without using numbers, get the highest salary you can. But don't exaggerate!
Java 8, $131,199.00 (15 bytes)
v->"$"+'e'*'ԓ'
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Explanation:
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79
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68
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Eww, those bytes are gross
Japt -P, score: 255 (2 bytes)
ff
f => filter, second f => everything but 'f'
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63
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Build a Markdown bomb
MathJax, 529\$\,\$252\$\,\$640ish / 256 ≈ 2\$\,\$067\$\,\$393
A good old thousand-laughs-style code
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57
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Write Moby Dick, approximately
Python 3, 2*279+592920=593478 2*250 + 592467 = 592967 2 * 271 + 592084 = 592626 2 * 278 + 592059 = 592615 2 * 285 + 586660 = 587230 2 * 320 + 585161 = 585801 2 * 339 + 585050 = 585728
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57
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57
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Reserved JavaScript
43 words, 603 bytes
Uhm, is this a loophole? I have no idea how the hell this is legal JS, but it works and it uses every single keyword.
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52
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Without using numbers, get the highest salary you can. But don't exaggerate!
CJam, (5 bytes) $294204.018...
'$PB#
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Explanation:
I derived it from Dennis' answer, but looked for combinations of numbers which would yield a ...
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Accepted
Minimally destroy CGCC in Game of Life
Score 1, 35 generations
Sorry, but I guess I wrecked the challenge. I brute-forced all meaningful one-dot additions by hand, and found no other answer that wins against this.
Raw ASCII format
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48
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Without using numbers, get the highest salary you can. But don't exaggerate!
CJam, 5 bytes, $262'144
'$YI#
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How it works
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46
votes
Accepted
44
votes
Hast Thou Slain the Jabberwock?
oOo CODE, score 0
Thanks to Dennis for golfing the Brainfuck code.
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43
votes
Without using numbers, get the highest salary you can. But don't exaggerate!
R, 20 bytes, $103540.9
T=pi+pi;cat("$",T^T)
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The max for 20 bytes is ...
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Accepted
Hello World in Multiple Languages
23 Befunges, 713 bytes
The only language I really know is Befunge, so instead of multiple languages, I've just gone with multiple implementations of Befunge. I believe this is still valid under PPCG ...
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Accepted
Hell0 W0rld! scored by ASCII values
Lenguage, score 0
Well, this is quite boring and obvious, but it seems to achieve the perfect score (assuming I understand the challenge correctly). To fix this loophole, you should probably add the ...
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40
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Accepted
Mutually Exclusive Quines
><>, Score: 41+41 = 82
Edit: both contained a 3. Fixed
'd3*}>a!o-!<<8:5@lI55>@z:5ll55>>q:>|q::|,
and
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40
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36
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36
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Without using numbers, get the highest salary you can. But don't exaggerate!
GS2, (5 bytes) $292,929
•$☺↔A
A full program (shown here using code-page 437). (Maximum achievable salary @ 5 bytes is $299069.75)
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Builds upon ...
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Fastest yes in the west
Bash, 3 bytes, 1.9 GB/s
yes
Try it online!
Admittedly this is a troll solution, but the rules do not explicitly forbid it, and it should get you a value close to ...
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Orientation Oriented Programming
05AB1E, 5 14 15 18 rotations (5 6 7 8 unique, 61 213 1488 4367 bytes)
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Find the HTTP status code
Node.js, 135 126 125 123 bytes, score 40
Saved 2 bytes by using unprintable characters, as suggested by @dingledooper
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