Crown hundred crownty crown

Question

I noticed a certain game had a peculiar life counter, which instead of stopping at 999, gained a new digit – the next number was crown hundred or 00. After 99 came crown hundred crownty (0) and the last number, after 9, was crown hundred crownty crown or , which would be 1110 in decimal.

Your task is to write a program or a function that outputs this counter.

Given an integer from the range [0,1110] (inclusive on both ends), output a three character string where

• every character is from the list 0123456789
• the crown () can only appear as the leftmost character or when there's a crown to the left of it
• when this number is read as a decimal number but with the crown counting as 10, you get back the original number

Test cases

   0 → "000"
  15 → "015"
 179 → "179"
 999 → "999"
1000 → "00"
1097 → "97"
1100 → "0"
1108 → "8"
1110 → ""

You may use any non-decimal character instead of the crown. To encourage pretty printing, the crown character (UTF8 byte sequence "\240\159\145\145") counts as one byte instead of four. Your program doesn't have to work for numbers outside the valid range.

This is code-golf, so the shortest answer, measured in bytes, wins!

Answer 1

05AB1E, 20 18 bytes

₄‹i₄+¦ëTð.;„1 „  :

Uses spaces for crowns.

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Explanation:

₄‹i               # If the (implicit) input is smaller than 1000:
   ₄+             #  Add 1000 to the (implicit) input
     ¦            #  And remove the leading 1 (so the leading zeros are added)
                  #   i.e. 17 → 1017 → "017"
  ë               # Else:
   Tð.;           #  Replace the first "10" with a space " "
                  #   i.e. 1010 → " 10"
                  #   i.e. 1101 → "1 1"
                  #   i.e. 1110 → "11 "
       „1 „  :    #  Replace every "1 " with "  " (until it no longer changes)
                  #   i.e. " 10" → " 10"
                  #   i.e. "1 1" → "  1"
                  #   i.e. "11 " → "   "

Answer 2

JavaScript (Node.js), 50 bytes

f=(n,p=1e3)=>n<p?(n+p+'').slice(1):'#'+f(n-p,p/10)

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TIO was based on Arnauld's answer. Show as #.

Answer 3

JavaScript (ES6),  62 46  44 bytes

Saved 2 bytes thanks to @nwellnhof

Outputs crowns as x characters.

n=>(n+1e4+'').replace(/1+0/,'xxx').slice(-3)

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How?

We add \$10000\$ to the input, coerce it to a string, look for the /1+0/ pattern and replace it with xxx. Finally, we return the 3 trailing characters.

Examples:

$$\begin{align}&0 &\rightarrow &\text{ "}\color{red}{\text{10}}\text{000"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xxx000"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "000"}\\ &123 &\rightarrow &\text{ "}\color{red}{\text{10}}\text{123"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xxx123"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "123"}\\ &1023 &\rightarrow &\text{ "}\color{red}{\text{110}}\text{23"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xxx23"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "x23"}\\ &1103 &\rightarrow &\text{ "}\color{red}{\text{1110}}\text{3"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xxx3"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xx3"}\\ &1110 &\rightarrow &\text{ "}\color{red}{\text{11110}}\text{"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xxx"} &\rightarrow &\text{ "xxx"} \end{align} $$

Answer 4

Shakespeare Programming Language, 763 692 690 689 683 bytes

,.Ajax,.Ford,.Page,.Act I:.Scene I:.[Enter Ajax and Ford]Ford:Listen tothy!Ajax:You big big cat.Scene V:.Ajax:Remember the remainder of the quotient betweenI twice the sum ofa cat a big big cat.Ford:You be the quotient betweenyou twice the sum ofa cat a big big cat.Ajax:You be the sum ofyou a pig.Be you nicer zero?If solet usScene V.Ford:You big big cat.[Exit Ajax][Enter Page]Page:Recall.Ford:You be I.Scene X:.Page:Recall.Am I nicer zero?If notopen heart.If notlet usScene L.Ford:You big big big big big cat.Speak thy.Am I worse a cat?If soyou zero.Scene L:.[Exit Page][Enter Ajax]Ford:You be the sum ofyou a pig.Is you nicer a cat?[Exit Ajax][Enter Page]Ford:If solet usScene X.

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Uses " " instead of crowns. At the cost of 4 more bytes, this could be modified to show a "visible" character instead.

Explanation:

,.Ajax,.Ford,.Page,.Act I:.Scene I:.[Enter Ajax and Ford]

    Boilerplate, introducing the characters.

Ford:Listen tothy!

    Input a value to Ajax.

Ajax:You big big cat.

    Set Ford's value to 4 (we will be pushing 4 digits from Ajax onto Ford's personal stack).

Scene V:.Ajax:Remember the remainder of the quotient betweenI twice the sum ofa cat a big big cat.Ford:You be the quotient betweenyou twice the sum ofa cat a big big cat.

    DIGIT-PUSHING LOOP: Push Ajax's last digit onto Ford's stack; divide Ajax by 10.

Ajax:You be the sum ofyou a pig.Be you nicer zero?If solet usScene V.

    Decrement Ford; loop until Ford is 0.

Ford:You big big cat.

    Set Ajax's value to 4 (we will pop 3 digits from Ford's stack in the next loop).

[Exit Ajax][Enter Page]Page:Recall.Ford:You be I.

    Pop the top value off Ford's stack, and store that into Page.
    Here, Page will contain 0 if there are no crowns to be drawn,
    and 1 if there are crowns to be drawn.

Scene X:.Page:Recall.Am I nicer zero?If notopen heart.If notlet usScene L.

    DIGIT-DRAWING LOOP: Pop the top value off of Ford's stack and set Ford equal to that value.
    If there are no crowns to be drawn, output Ford's literal value here, and skip the crown-drawing section.

Ford:You big big big big big cat.Speak thy.Am I worse a cat?If soyou zero.

    Draw crown.
    If we are drawing crowns, and Ford contains 0 here, then we are now done drawing crowns, and thus we store 0 into Page.
    (Put in one more "big" for the crown to look like an @ symbol.)

Scene L:.[Exit Page][Enter Ajax]Ford:You be the sum ofyou a pig.Is you nicer a cat?[Exit Ajax][Enter Page]Ford:If solet usScene X.

    Decrement Ajax; loop until Ajax is 1 (i.e. 3 times).

Answer 5

Python 2, 53 bytes

Hats off to Arnauld for -22 bytes. Recursion still wins, though.

lambda k:re.sub("1+0","CCC",`k+10000`)[-3:]
import re

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Python 2, 51 bytes

This instead implements tsh's recursive method. Saved 2 bytes thanks to ovs.

f=lambda n,p=1000:n/p and'C'+f(n-p,p/10)or`n+p`[1:]

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Answer 6

Python 2, 52 bytes

lambda n:['%03d'%n,'%3s'%`n`.lstrip('1')[1:]][n>999]

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Answer 7

Retina 0.8.2, 41 bytes

\b((.)|..)\b
$#2$*00$&
T`d`_#`(?=....)1+0

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\b((.)|..)\b
$#2$*00$&

Pad 1- and 2-digit numbers to three digits.

T`d`_#`(?=....)1+0

Change leading 1s of 4-digit numbers to #s and delete the next 0.

Answer 8

Jelly, 19 bytes - 0 = 19

<ȷ¬ȧDi0ɓ⁶ẋ⁹Ḋ;+ȷDḊṫʋ

A full program printing the result using a space character as the crown.
(As a monadic Link a mixed list of integer digits and space characters is yielded)

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...maybe a recursive implementation will be shorter.

How?

<ȷ¬ȧDi0ɓ⁶ẋ⁹Ḋ;+ȷDḊṫʋ - Main Link: integer, N    e.g. 1010       or   10
 ȷ                  - literal 1000                  1000            1000
<                   - less than?                    0               1
  ¬                 - logical not                   1               0
    D               - to decimal list               [1,0,1,0]       [1,0]
   ȧ                - logical and                   [1,0,1,0]       0
      0             - literal zero                  0               0
     i              - first index - call this I     2               1  (0 treated as [0] by i)
       ɓ            - new dyadic chain with swapped arguments - i.e. f(N, I)
        ⁶           - literal space character       ' '             ' '
          ⁹         - chain's right argument        2               1
         ẋ          - repeat                        [' ',' ']       [' ']
           Ḋ        - dequeue                       [' ']           []
                  ʋ - last four links as a dyad - i.e. f(N, I)
             +ȷ     -   add 1000                    2010            1010
               D    -   to decimal list             [2,0,1,0]       [1,0,1,0]
                Ḋ   -   dequeue                     [0,1,0]         [0,1,0]
                 ṫ  -   tail from index (I)         [1,0]           [0,1,0]
            ;       - concatenate                   [' ',1,0]       [0,1,0]
                    - implicit print                " 10"           "010"

Answer 9

Python 2, 40 bytes

lambda n:'%3s'%`10000+n`.lstrip('1')[1:]

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Implements an idea similar to Mr. Xcoder's regex-based answer but without a regex. We remove leading 1's in 10000+n as well as the next character, then pad with spaces to length 3. The result is similar to ovs's solution using lstrip but without needing two cases.

Answer 10

Clean, 87 bytes

Doesn't output crowns (uses c).

import StdEnv,Text
$n#i=3-n/1000-n/1100-n/1110
=("ccc"+lpad(""<+n rem(10^i))i'0')%(i,9)

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$ n                   // function $ of `n`
 # i =                // define `i` as (the number of digits that aren't crowns)
  3 -                 // three minus
  n / 1000 -          // 1 if first digit is crown
  n / 1100 -          // 1 if second digit is crown
  n / 1110            // 1 if third digit is crown
 = (                  // the string formed by
  "ccc" +             // prefixing three crowns to
  lpad (              // the padding of
   "" <+ n rem (10^i) // non-crown digits of `n`
  ) i '0'             // with zeroes
 ) % (i, 9)           // and removing the extra crowns

Clean, 99 - 3 = 96 bytes

This one has crowns.

import StdEnv,Text
$n#i=3-n/1000-n/1100-n/1110
=(""+lpad(""<+n rem(10^i))i'0')%(i*4,99)

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Answer 11

C,  84  58 bytes

Thanks to @tsh for saving 25 bytes and thanks to @ceilingcat for saving a byte!

f(n,p){for(p=1e3;p/=10;)n-=putchar(n/p>9?46:48+n/p)%12*p;}

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Answer 12

Japt, 20 bytes

A naïve (and slightly drunk!) port of Arnauld's solution. Uses " for crown.

U+A³ s r"^21*0"_çQÃÅ

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Answer 13

Java 10, 84 83 bytes

n->{for(int p=100,t;p>0;n-=t%12*p,p/=10)System.out.printf("%c",t=n/p>9?46:48+n/p);}

Port of @tsh' C comment.
Uses . instead of crowns.

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Alternative approach (84 (87-3) bytes):

n->f(n,1000)String f(int n,int p){return n<p?(n+p+"").substring(1):""+f(n-p,p/10);}

Port of @tsh' JavaScript's answer.

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Answer 14

APL (Dyalog Unicode), 32 bytes

1e3∘{⍵<⍺:1↓⍕⍵+⍺⋄'C',(⍵-⍺)∇⍨⍺÷10}

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Prefix direct function.

Port of @tsh's JS Answer.

How:

1e3∘{⍵<⍺:1↓⍕⍵+⍺⋄'C',(⍵-⍺)∇⍨⍺÷10} ⍝ Main function, arguments ⍵ and ⍺ (⍵ → input, ⍺ → 1000).
     ⍵<⍺:                          ⍝ If ⍵<⍺
         1↓                        ⍝ Drop (↓) the first element (1) of
           ⍕                       ⍝ Format (⍕); 'stringify'
            ⍵+⍺                    ⍝ ⍵+⍺
               ⋄                   ⍝ else
                'C',               ⍝ Concatenate (,) the literal 'C' with
                         ∇⍨        ⍝ Recursive call (∇) with swapped arguments (⍨)
                    (⍵-⍺)  ⍺÷10    ⍝ New arguments; ⍵ → ⍵-⍺; ⍺ → ⍺÷10

Answer 15

PHP, 71 bytes

for($n=$argn,$x=1e4;1<$x/=10;$n%=$n<$x?$x/10:$x)echo$n<$x?$n/$x*10|0:C;

prints C for the crown. Run as pipe with -nR or try it online.

Answer 16

Haskell, 48 bytes

('2'#).show.(+1000)
n#(a:x)|n==a='c':'1'#x|1>0=x

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Answer 17

Perl 6, 38 - 9 = 29 bytes

-2 bytes thanks to Jo King

{~m/...$/}o{S/1+0//}o*+1e4

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Inspired by Arnauld's JavaScript solution.

Answer 18

sed, 39

48 bytes, but score is 39, since each counts as 1.

/..../s/^1+0//
s/^/00/
s/.*(...)/\1/

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Answer 19

Clean, 96 bytes

I think Super Mario 3D Land, New Super Mao Bros.2, and Super Mario 3D World have this life counter.

import StdEnv,Text
$n#i=3-n/1000-n/1100-n/1110
=(""+lpad(""<+n rem(10^i))i'0')%(i*4,99

I agree with Clean.

Verify that I’m not cheating.