Print the Lost numbers

Question

As a big fan of the Lost TV series, I always got intrigued by the sequence of numbers that repetitively appears on the episodes. These numbers are:

\$ 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42\$ (A104101)

Using any programming language, write a code that outputs these numbers.

Scoring:

• Shortest answer wins

• The output must not contain any other numbers or letters. You may use any other character as separator, or even no separator at all.

• You cannot separate digits of the same number. \$ 48\_15162342 \$ is a valid answer, but \$481\_5162342\$ is not.

• You must respect the order.

• If your code does not contain any of the numbers from the sequence, reduce your score by 30%. This rule does allow you to enter the digits separately. E.g.:

  abcde1fg5h
  

  Is a valid candidate because the answer does not contain the number \$15\$, only its digits. However, any \$4\$ or \$8\$ will invalidate the bonus.

• If the code does not contain any digit at all, reduce your score by 50%. Other characters like \$¹\$, \$²\$ or \$³\$ are still valid for this bonus.

Answer 1

Lost, 29 27/2 = 13.5 bytes

%?\>>>>>>>>>>
>>\"*"@"

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Seemed like the right language to use.

Explanation:

Lost is a 2D language where the pointer starts anywhere, going in any direction. This generally leads to a lot of double checking that the pointer hasn't entered a section early.

...>>>>>>>>>>  These arrows filter all pointers that appear on the top line
.............  Or going vertically


%............  This flips the flag so that the program can end
.............  This stops premature termination

.?\..........  Clear the stack by skipping if a value popped from the stack is positive
.............  When the stack is empty, the \ directs the pointer down

.............  The \ directs the pointer right
..\"*"..  The string literal pushes all the Lost values to the stack

..\..........  The @ terminates the program if the % flag is switched
>>\........@.  Otherwise it clears the stack and repeats

.............  The quote here is to prevent the pointer getting stuck
............"  This happens when the pointer starts between the other quotes

Answer 2

Jelly, 7/2 = 3.5 bytes

“ƲÞIȥ’Ḥ

Prints the numbers without separator, i.e., the integer \$4815162342\$.

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How it works

“ƲÞIȥ’ is bijective base-250 integer literal.
Ʋ, Þ, I, and ȥ have (1-based) indices \$154\$, \$21\$, \$74\$, and \$171\$ in Jelly's code page, so they encode the integer \$250^3\cdot154+250^2\cdot21+250\cdot74+171=2407581171\$.

Finally, Ḥ (unhalve) doubles the integer, yielding \$2\cdot2407581171=4815162342\$.

Doubling is necessary, because encoding the output directly leads to “¡9)Ƙ[’, which contains a digit.

Answer 3

Neim, 6 5 bytes, 3 2.5 points

Jσς§A

Explanation:

J     Push 48
 σ    Push 15
  ς   Push 16
   §  Push 23
    A Push 42
      Implicitly join the contents 
      of the stack together and print

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Answer 4

Python 3, 25 bytes, 12.5 points

print(*map(ord,'ዏٗ*'))

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（髒, ⿰馬葬）, （謚, ⿰言⿱⿵八一皿） cost 4 bytes, but U+0657 only cost 2 bytes...

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Python 3, 29 bytes, 14.5 points

print(ord('')*ord('湡'))

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（⿰馬葬） is variant character of 髒 which means "dirty". 湡 is the name of a river. And they are nothing related to this question as I known.

Answer 5

05AB1E, score: 10 9 7 bytes / 2 = 3.5

•‘o]Ê•·

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Or 7 bytes alternative:

•’µ[%•R

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Both outputting the integer 4815162342.

Explanation:

•‘o]Ê•     # Compressed integer 2407581171
      ·    # Doubled

•’µ[%•     # Compressed integer 2432615184
      R    # Reversed

See this 05AB1E tip of mine (section How to compress large integers?) to understand why •‘o]Ê• is 2407581171 and •’µ[%• is 2432615184.

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Old 9 bytes answer outputting the list [4,8,15,16,23,42]:

•ΓƒÇ²•т;в

-1 byte (and therefore -0.5 score) thanks to @Emigna.

Longer than the other 05AB1E answer, but this outputs the list [4,8,15,16,23,42] instead of the integer 4815162342.

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Explanation:

•ΓƒÇ²•       # Compressed integer 1301916192
      т;     # Integer 50 (100 halved)
        в    # Convert the first integer to Base-50 (arbitrary): [4,8,15,16,23,42]

See this 05AB1E tip of mine (sections How to compress large integers? and How to compress integer-lists?) to understand why •ΓƒÇ²• is 1301916192, and •ΓƒÇ²•50в is [4,8,15,16,23,42].

Answer 6

JavaScript (ES7), 34/2 = 17 bytes

_=>eval(atob`NjUwNTgxMDErNDEqKjY`)

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This decodes and evaluates the expression "65058101+41**6", which does not contain any digit once encoded in base-64.

$$65058101+41^6=65058101+4750104241=4815162342$$

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JavaScript (ES6), 13 bytes

Boring obvious solution.

_=>4815162342

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Answer 7

Brain-Flak, 52/2 == 26 bytes

(((((((((()()()())){})){}[()])())[]()()())){}[[]]())

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Answer 8

Java 8, score: 12 11.9 (70% of 17 bytes)

v->767*6277917L+3

-0.1 score thanks to @RickHitchcock.

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Explanation:

v->               // Method with empty unused parameter and long return-type
  767             //  767
     *6277917L    //  multiplied by 6277917 (as long)
              +3  //  And then 3 is added

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Old answer with a score of: 12 (50% of 24 bytes):

v->(long)''*'Ⓥ'*'䧶'

Contains an unprintable character 0x1B.

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Explanation:

v->                   // Method with empty unused parameter and long return-type
  (long)              //  Cast the character (and therefore the result) to a long
        ''            //  27
           *'Ⓥ'       //  Multiplied by 9419
                *'䧶'  //  Multiplied by 18934

In Java, characters can be autoboxed to integers holding their unicode value. Unfortunately, the maximum supported unicode for characters is 65,535, so I can't use just two characters to multiply (since the largest two numbers that divide the expected 4,815,162,342 are 56,802 and 84,771, where the 84,771 unfortunately exceeds the maximum 65,535.
In addition, since the maximum size of an int is 32²-1 (2,147,483,647) and the result 4,815,162,342 is larger than that, an explicit cast to long, which can hold up to 64²-1 (9,223,372,036,854,775,807), is required.

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Boring answer would have been 14 bytes without any bonuses:

v->4815162341L

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Answer 9

R, 18x0.7 = 12.6 score

cat(9*2*267509019)

Fairly self explanatory, just does some arithmetic avoiding the numbers in question.

Answer 10

7, 10 bytes, 27 characters

115160723426754314105574033

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The packed representation of this program on disk is (xxd format):

00000000: 269c 3a71 6f63 308b 7c0d                 &.:qoc0.|.

Explanation

We've seen this sequence of numbers before, in Automate Saving the World, which was about printing the numbers at regular intervals, making it interesting via requiring the use of a very old language. Much newer languages can have their own twists that make this challenge interesting, though. _{(Yes, this paragraph, and in fact the reason I started writing this answer, is effectively just a way to get all the related challenges to show up together in the sidebar; normally people do that using comments but I don't have enough rep.)}

The first thing to note is that 7 is made entirely of digits, so going for the bonuses here is unlikely to work (although if you view the program as a sequence of octets, none of them correspond to ASCII representations of any of the original numbers, so you could claim the bonus in that sense). The next thing to note is that 7 has commands to recreate the command sequence likely to have produced a specific piece of data; so could we possibly interpret the Lost numbers 4815162342 as a section of a 7 program itself?

The answer is "not quite". The most problematic part is that second number, 8. 7 programs are written in octal; there's no such number as 8. So the very start of the string will have to be printed differently.

The base of the program is therefore based on the 7 "Hello world" program:

5431410557403
543141055          string literal
         7         separate data from code
          4        rearrange stack: {program's source}, empty element, {literal}
           0       escape {the literal}, appending it to {the empty element}
            3      output {the escaped literal}, pop {the program's source}

with the escaped literal being in a domain-specific language that's interpreted as follows:

5                  output format: US-TTY using pairs of digits in the string
 43                select character set: digits and common symbols
   14              "4"
     10            "8"
       55          forget the set output format

After this comes an extra 3, which outputs the remaining stack element (and exits due to insufficient remaining stack). That element is specified at the start of the program, and to avoid the unmatched 6 (which works a bit like a closing bracket), we generate it using code, rather than writing it directly as data. (Note that there are two implied 7 characters at the start of the program, which is relevant here):

{77}115160723426
 7                 empty stack element
  7 11516          append "1151"
         0         append "6"
          723246   append "2324"

That produces the following literal:

115162324
1                  set output format: literally as octal
 15162324          "15162324"

which gets printed out.

Answer 11

05AB1E, 6*0.7 = 4.2 bytes

•1Z&ð“

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Prints the number uncompressed from base-255

Answer 12

MASM 8088 Assembly source, (93 bytes - 50%) = 46.5 bytes

Using no numbers or the sequence in the source:

MOV AH,'P'-'G'
LEA DX,L
INT '!'
RET
T EQU '-'-'+'
L DW 'ph'/T,'jb'/T,'lb'/T,'fd'/T,'dh'/T,'$'

Output:

A>LOST.COM
4815162342

Answer 13

Charcoal, 13 bytes / 2 = 6.5

ＩＥTPIHA.⁻⁸⁸℅ι

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Answer 14

Aheui (esotope), 45 bytes(15 chars) * 0.5 = 22.5 points

반밤밪박밭빠따받발따밣뱣히망어

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Explanation:

See this also; Aheui Reference(English)

Aheui program starts with default stack '아'(or none)

반: push 2, move cursor right by 1(→).
밤: push 4, →
밪: push 3, →
박: push 2, →
밭: push 4, →
빠: dup, →
따: pop 2, push mul result(16).
받: push 3, →
발: push 5, →
따: pop 2, push mul result(15).
밣: push 8, →
뱣: push 4, move cursor right by 2(→→).
히: end.
망: pop 1, print, → (if stack is empty, move cursor left by 1.)
어: move cursor left by 1(←).

Note that ㅁ(print instruction) moves cursor by reverse direction if stack(or queue) is empty.

Answer 15

Perl 5, 16 bytes - 30% = 11.2

say 0x5FAB2EA2*3

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Answer 16

PowerShell, 12 bytes * 0.7 = 8.4

0x5FAB2EA2*3

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"Port" of Xcali's answer to have a better Powershell answer.

Answer 17

naz, 46 bytes, score 32.2

2a2a1o2m1o7s1o5m1o2s2s1o6m1o2s2s1o1a1o1a1o2s1o

Simply outputs each digit in 4815162342 one at a time.

Answer 18

JavaScript, 143 bytes (not sure how to score)

(g=`${2*2}`)=>g.repeat(6).replace(/(.)/g,(m,p,i,k='')=>
  (k=m*[g-3,g-2,g,g,+g+2,g*3-1][i]
  ,RegExp(`${g-2}|${g}`).test(i)?k-1:i==+g+1?k-(g/2):k))

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Start with six 4's, multiply, add, subtract by, to, from 4 to derive output.

Answer 19

JavaScript (SpiderMonkey), 67 bytes / 2 = 33.5 60 bytes / 2 = 30 58 bytes / 2 = 29 48 bytes / 2 = 24

-7 bytes/3.5, -2 bytes/1 courtesy of @JoKing, -10 bytes/5 courtesy of @tsh

print(a=-~-~-~-~[],a+=a,b=a+~-a,a+a,a+b,--b+b+b)

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Answer 20

PHP, 35/2=17.5

<?=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz^NVBVKOVKLVHIVNH;

a digital approach: 40*.7=28

<?=2+2,_,5+3,_,17-2,_,17-1,_,17+6,_,7*6;

no digits, no strings: 68/2 = 34

<?=$p++,!$p++,$p+=$p,_,$p+=$p,_,~-$q=$p+$p,_,$q,_,--$p+$q,_,$p*~-$p;

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Answer 21

Japt, 10 9 bytes / 2 = 4.5

"0¢*"mc

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Answer 22

APL(Dyalog Unicode), 18/2 = 9 bytes

×/⎕UCS'湡'

Just boring old character multiplication.

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Answer 23

Whitespace, score: 49 41 bytes / 2 = 20.5

[S S S T    S S S T T   T   T   T   S S S S S S S T T   S S S T S T T   T   T   T   S S T   T   S N
_Push_4815162342][T N
S T _Print_number]

Letters S (space), T (tab), and N (new-line) added as highlighting only.
[..._some_action] added as explanation only.

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Pseudo-code:

Integer i = 4815162342
Print i as number to STDOUT

Explanation:

In whitespace, a number is pushed as follows:

• S: Enable Stack Manipulation
• S: Push number
• S/T: Positive/negative respectively
• Some T/S followed by a single N: Decimal as binary, where T is 1 and S is 0

After that it is simply printed with TNST:

• TN: Enable I/O
• S: Output the top of the stack
• T: As number

Answer 24

JavaScript (ES6), 16 * 0.7 = 11.2 bytes

_=>767*6277917+3

Outputs the digits with no delimiters.

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Answer 25

F#, 45 bytes = 22.5 points

Just a run-of-the-mill for loop that prints the digits:

for c in"DHOPWj"do printf"%d"(int c-int '@')

The above is a complete program that can be compiled into an executable.

In a REPL (read-eval-print loop), e.g. FSI (F# Interactive), the following shorter version will work, as the REPL will output a representation of the expression evaluated; it has 35 bytes = 17.5 points:

[for c in"DHOPWj"->int c-int '@'];;

Answer 26

Python 3, 44 38 19 18.5 bytes

-6 bytes thanks to @Jo King
-50% bytes thanks to @ouflak for pointing out the 50% bonus
-1 byte thanks to @Dennis

for i in'밗ɯ*':print(ord(i),end='')

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Answer 27

Pyke, 3 points

77 91 f8 86 98 06

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The first byte signals to read in base 128 until a byte without the high bit is set.

Finally, 32 is subtracted from the result (for historical reasons).

This allows for the generation of large numbers in very small amounts of space

Answer 28

MathGolf, 7 bytes * 0.5 = 3.5

ÿ≤┼ÇÅ$∞

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Explanation

Note that this code doesn't yet work on TIO. I have made some changes to MathGolf recently, including adding the $ operator. Once it gets pulled to TIO you can run it there, I'll make an update to this answer then. It runs perfectly in the terminal

ÿ≤┼ÇÅ     Push "≤┼ÇÅ"
     $    pop(a), push ord(a) (pushes 2407581171)
      ∞   pop a, push 2*a

I utilize the fact that MathGolf has 1-byte literals for creating strings of up to length 4. If I wanted to convert the entire number from a base-256 string, I would have needed to use two ", and the string would have been 5 characters. This way, I save 2 bytes, but I lose one byte by having the doubling operator in the end.

Answer 29

Python 3 34 Points

b=len("  ");c=b*b;d=c*b;e=d*b;g=e+d-b//b;print(c,d,e-b//b,e,g,g*b-c)

Answer 30

C# (.NET Core), 17 bytes *.7 = 11.9 bytes.

Ascii-Only's version.

()=>0x5FAB2EA2l*3

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C# (.NET Core), 42 bytes, score = 42/2 = 21

Uses the F386 and BC17 characters.

()=>{return $"{(int)'밗'}{(int)''}";};

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Answer 31

Befunge-98 (FBBI), 15 bytes / 2 = 7.5 points

"*H/!k-"*.*+..@

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Explanation:

First push the ASCII values of the characters '*+H/!k- (42, 72, 47, 33, 107, 45) in this order to the stack. Then compute \$4815 = 45 \cdot 107\$ and \$1623 = 33\cdot 47+72\$, and output.

Answer 32

Runic Enchantments, 15/2 = 7.5

\>`*`
Rn$!;

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Simply encodes the values in as few bytes as possible. 42, 16, 15, 8, and 4, coerces them to numerical values, and prints them in reverse order. 4 8 15 16 42 without any spaces, as 48151642 was an acceptable output format.

4 and 8 could not be combined (48) as that is a numerical 0 and was not allowed to be used. It is possible to combine the 15, 16, and 42 into 2 characters (instead of 3) ʂ at the expense of +1 byte, which wasn't worth it.

Answer 33

Keg, 8 - 50% = 4 bytes

밗..

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Answer History

10 - 50% = 5 bytes

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Literally just prints the number 4815162342 using the push'n'print method.

Answer 34

W j, 7 / 2 = 3.5 points

I updated the ord to support W's own code page.

0“„√*"C

Explanation

0“„√*"  % Define a string
      C % Convert to codepoints [48,15,16,23,42]

Flag:j  % Join the output list without a separator
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Answer 35

Intcode, 33 bytes

4,0,104,8,104,16,104,23,104,42,99

Basic hardcoded answer (104 means "output the number after this in the sequence"). Getting the bonus would be very hard (although probably possible), given that 4 is the output instruction ...

Answer 36

Python 2, 16 bytes

print 4815162342

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Answer 37

Red, 50 bytes / 2 = 25

foreach c"abcdcefgaf"[prin index? find"cfgade.b"c]

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Prints the numbers without separator

Answer 38

perl -M5.010 -Mre=eval, 32/2 == 16 bytes

This program is mostly unprintable characters -- characters which aren't even Unicode characters. Here is a hexdump of the program:

$ od -x solution
0000000      2727    7e3d    277e    c0d7    8c84    869e    cbd8    c7d3
0000020      ced3    d3ca    c9ce    cdd3    d3cc    cdcb    82d8    27d6
0000040                                                       
$

And here's the program to create the solution:

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl

use 5.026;

use strict;
use warnings;
no  warnings 'syntax';

use experimental 'signatures';

my $q = ~"(?{say'4,8,15,16,23,42'})";
print "''=~~'$q'";

__END__

Answer 39

Z80Golf, 17 bytes * 0.5 = 8.5

00000000: 1b17 1e1a 1e19 1d1c 1b1d 2676 0a03 c5ee  ..........&v....
00000010: 2f                                       /

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Assembly:

db 0x2F ^ '4'	;1b dec de
db 0x2F ^ '8'	;17 rla
db 0x2F ^ '1'	;1e ld e,
db 0x2F ^ '5'	;1a  0x1a
db 0x2F ^ '1'	;1e ld e, 
db 0x2F ^ '6'	;19  0x19
db 0x2F ^ '2'	;1d dec e
db 0x2F ^ '3'	;1c inc e
db 0x2F ^ '4'	;1b dec de
db 0x2F ^ '2'	;1d dec e
ld h, 0x76	;halt

ld a, (bc)	;load the next digit. The first char in addr in 0x0
inc bc		;get next digit
push bc		;return to the next digit which is basically a nop
xor 0x2F	;decode the digit
		;fall through into putchar. Putchar (0x8000), prints the char in register a

Assembly

Answer 40

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 68 bytes (score 34)

#&@@@"distinctive pattern nothing is known about"~StringPosition~"t"

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Prints the list {4,8,15,16,23,42}.

Answer 41

T-SQL, 20 bytes - 30% bonus = 14

PRINT 2.*9*267509019

Contains none of the sequence directly. Factored via this web site. The period is in there as an implicit conversion to float so we don't overflow an INT.

This is just slightly better that the trivial solution (16 bytes, no bonus):

PRINT 4815162342

Answer 42

Perl 6, 17 bytes * 0.5 = 8.5

say ords "*"

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This gets the ordinal values of a lot of unprintables and gets the no digits bonus. Using the no numbers from the sequence bonus, we can get 16 * 0.7 = 11.2 points:

say 0x5FAB2EA2*3

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Which in turn beats the plain solution of 14 bytes:

say 4815162342

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Answer 43

Python 2, 38 * 0.5 = 19 score 34 bytes * 0.5 = 17 score

print map(`int`.find,"ent t'ypey")

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Outputs a list of the digits in the sequence; i.e. the list [4, 8, 1, 5, 1, 6, 2, 3, 4, 2].

Because it's more interesting to satisfy the 'no digits' approach, regardless of the score.

Python 2, 23 bytes - 30% = 16.1 score

print int('27mtn1i',36)

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Answer 44

Lua, 69 bytes / 2 = 34.5 points

a={"","","","","","*"}s=" "for i=#s,#a do print(s.byte(a[i]))end

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Answer 45

Powershell, 10 bytes, score 10

4815162342

Answer 46

SmileBASIC, 13 - 30% = 9.1 bytes

?&h1CB35ACA;2

Uses a hexadecimal number to avoid any of the numbers in the sequence. The final 2 needs to be printed separately because 4815162342 doesn't fit into a 32 bit signed integer.

Answer 47

brainfuck, 55 bytes

-[>+<-----]>+.++++.-------.++++.----.+++++.----.+.+.--.

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Answer 48

Gol><>, 12 bytes, score 6

"*"lRn;

Pretty simple, I just used whitespace to encode and outputted it in order, I believe the score is correct, since it said to set it to 50% if you don't use any numbers, and this only has ascii characters!

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Answer 49

VBA (Excel), 38 66 bytes - 50% = 33 points

Using Immediate Window

?Join(Split("4 8 1 5 1 6 2 3 4 2"),"")

a="  
  
     ":For Each x in Split(a):b=b &Asc(x):Next:?b