I like how Best Practices and Clever buttons are useless cause here we see ppl think using eval (which is banned/discouraged everywhere) is kinda cool.

you & me both pal haha

Nice way to solve

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.” - Mao Zedong

lol cheater

Going > 20 turns this task in converting a number into words, so that would make it a duplicate. And specifying how to count the characters would then spoil the puzzle too.

Also, why are we still discussing this when the kata should have been unpublished?

The solution to this, OP, is forfeiting the C++ version of that kata, then translating it with the code from this one ( and unpublishing this kata ).

This should not be a separate kata.

No, random tests with higher numbers of knocks.

It's too easy to reverse engineer the number of knocks by running tests and seeing expected values ( that's what I did ). The function domain is simply too small.

If you have to reverse engineer, say, ten thousand possible inputs, that'd become prohibitively time-comsuming. Increase the number of random tests to 100 or 200, and you have to have practically the whole range.

You could do 1 to 20 in fixed tests, so people have some results to discern a pattern, but have the random tests go higher ( and there could be fixed tests for higher numbers as well. but I'd do those after 1 to 20 ).

Do you mean more random tests? I put in 50 now.

Not enough tests. Look at the solutions ?!

Duplicate.

@Toisen:

String.replaceAll is currently not a standard Javascript function and will return an error in Node.js (see https://node.green/#ESNEXT-candidate--stage-3---String-prototype-replaceAll).

It may have been implemented in Chrome and will work in your browser console, but nowhere else.

What is replaceAll() ?

It's a non-standard function that is available in Chrome and not on CW.

read the error message TypeError: str.replaceAll is not a function

What is replaceAll() ?