Epic Skills Assessment Epic Skills Assessment Fictional Programming Language Logic Questions and Answers 3

Question 1

In a fictional language, 'NEST(n)' creates a list of lists where each inner list i contains integers from 1 to i. What is NEST(3)?

Accepted Answer

[[1], [1,2], [1,2,3]]

Answer

NEST(3) builds three inner lists: [1], [1,2], and [1,2,3].

Question 2

A fictional language uses 'SNAP(str, n)' to split a string into chunks of n characters. What is SNAP("HEALTHCARE", 4)?

Accepted Answer

["HEAL", "THCA", "RE"]

Answer

SNAP splits "HEALTHCARE" into chunks of 4: "HEAL", "THCA", "RE".

Question 3

In a fictional language, 'PIVOT(matrix)' transposes a 2D array. What is PIVOT([[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]])?

Accepted Answer

[[1,3,5],[2,4,6]]

Answer

Transposing swaps rows and columns, so element at row i, col j moves to row j, col i.

Question 4

A fictional language defines 'REDUCE(arr, op, init)' which folds an array with an operator. What is REDUCE([2,3,4], *, 1)?

Accepted Answer

24

Answer

Starting with 1, multiply sequentially: 1*2=2, 2*3=6, 6*4=24.

Question 5

In a fictional language, 'MASK(str, pattern)' keeps only characters at positions where pattern has a 1. What is MASK("ABCDEF", "101010")?

Accepted Answer

ACE

Answer

Positions with 1 are indices 1, 3, 5 which correspond to A, C, E.

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