Additional tests have been created. It may be a while before this solution is invalidated however ( if ever ).

Like this. .chars and .split("") will do the same thing.

Or use a Set 'duuuuh' haha

That is DRY ideology :)

Be good if the OP created some additional tests to invalidate this solution. It's simple and works but would only be useful for decimals up to 9 decimal places. If we were dealing with numbers with 10000 decimal places long then what? Would this be a safe solution in production if you just used a large number for 'var c'? What do people think?

Highly agree to this solution! At least a chance must be given to the 'cheater' to justify their code and perhaps come up with an alternative solution. Removing honour and the solution to the kata is also a much better solution contrasted to locking accounts or banning people from using the website (be it temporarily or permanently).

...now I feel like a dumbass haha

Gosh! Quite a difference in performance.

Haha :-)

A tricky one but I don't think people should be penalised re: locking accounts etc. I think if a solution can be properly pegged down as cheating then remove their solution and their honor if needs be, leave a reason why and challenge that person to rethink their answer. Overall I think that's a positive solution for everyone and leaves out any negativity.

However for some solutions, I've found I could argue a case against some of the test cases written by the OP as sometimes I find they can be outside of the scope of the original challenge set.

Also another example is this, sometimes I think why spend hours creating a mathematically simple, but theoretically complex algorithm when the only solutions you are looking for are only a handful in a vast range, and these are already known or easily accessbile online. If you can create a simpler program which takes less time to process and fulfills the requirements of 200 test cases then I see that as a perfectly viable answer and in some way challenges the OP to further adapt his kata if he needs to.

I've been having this debate with a couple of people regarding a couple of kata I've come across and I think it bears an interesting argument. So I think that should be taken into account when people are considering jumping on the 'He's cheating!' bandwagon.

Just so you know guys the number 'n' in the test cases when submitted goes as high as 1,000,000,000. I'm guessing some Memoization is needed here :-S

Hey I forked a ruby script on GitHub containing a hash with key:value pairs for most keyboard characters (well at least the ones needed in this exercise). Check out my comment above yours if you need the link to it.

If any Ruby users are unsure of how to access the Morse Code table (admittedly myself included :-S). I managed to source a morse code table from GitHub and adjusted it so the syntax works with the latest version of Ruby. You can access it here and copy/paste into your script if that's easier/saves you time :-)

https://gist.github.com/Lex-Castevet/fc0408dd7bc3aa3de149