Kata

Sorry for the late response. I haven't been on codewars in a while. 'Hello' and 'hello' are not duplicates. One is capitalised and one isn't.

thanx!

Why do you think those symbols were all the same? Or all different?

They were all represented the same, but that's not the same thing.

Thanks Johan, I thought they were all the same because this is the input array I am receiving. This is my first time working with symbols in this way. I'm curious why they are represented in this manner rather than the actual symbols.

Input Array:

[ Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol(), Symbol() ]

How do I acess the actual content of the symbol in order to differentiate them?

Since I'm using a hash map to determine duplicates, I will end up having a symbol within a symbol?

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I am console logging the following to understand what is going on:

Type of elements in input array: symbol

My HashMap: I do see that it records a second entry for one of the symbols. Though I can't differentiate it myself visually.

valueMap { [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 2, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1, [Symbol()]: 1 }

I iterate over the hash map to find and return the prop that contains 2 and set that prop equal to a variable, and the console log it, this is where my logic seems to be breaking at the moment.

Duplicate is undefined (meant to be return value) as a undefined (meant to be data type of the value)

What I am realizing is that I need to figure out why this prop comes back as "undefined" when I try to access them. Because of that I am unable to determine the index location of the duplicates.

And I already fixed the Notes. They didn't display properly - and I could not see that when doing the translation, because I can't choose a language there. It's OK now.

Ok nice. Thanks for making the translation.

NP. I've run out of kata to solve a bit. Now mostly doing translations, which is just as good really. :]

I've run out of kata to solve a bit.

start python? x)

Nah.

I've learned Haskell on here, which was everything I hoped it would be.

If Python is everything I suspect it to be, I do not want to learn that. Does it have constants yet? :P

Seriously, I have no need for another language. I can always translate instead of solve. That opens up more kata than learning one new language anyway.

When I came up with the idea for this kata, I assumed it would already be made, however I couldn't find anything.

Yes there are lots of katas about duplicates or repeats or doubles but clearly the additional things have an impact on whether it is classed as a duplicate or not or otherwise there wouldn't be all these similar katas like you have mentioned.

I will un publish if I have to but normally when there is a duplicate, the satisfaction rating is quite low, however mine isn't as low as it normally would be, which makes me think that not as many people think this is a duplicate kata.

When I came across this kata, it felt very much like a duplicate. Though I didn't find an exact duplicate, I did find many white katas with significant overlap, which, for white katas, is a strong indicator of a duplicate task.

While there are plenty of katas that share similarities, their mere existence doesn't prove uniqueness; it may simply be a consequence of having been overlooked (which is very likely to happen with over 9000 katas). This site gets new users all the time, and to a new user this kata may appear unique because they hadn't encountered something similar before. I'd imagine the chances are high that a new user will encounter a newer duplicate than the original kata published years ago because newer katas rise to the top of the list (assuming most users don't change the sorting criteria, which defaults to "Newest").

Also, a notable reason why there are many similar katas is because many of those are from a few years before. Back when there were far fewer users, things were much more lax and authors got away with things like no random tests, no sample tests, poorly written descriptions, and so on. It was only later on that the bar got raised and users put in the collective effort to maintain some level of standards.

Ultimately, my point is that people should be more conscientious of what they decide to publish. As you said yourself, you felt that this kata was already made, which sounds like a gut reaction, meaning you probably encountered very similar katas before. I know I certainly have.

I think the combination works.

Low level kata always have this problem - they're all somewhat the same. There just isn't that much to do, or you'd have a higher kyu task. In theory, the number of low level kata is finite, but I don't think we're there yet.

Is it ok now?