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I'm sure most of us have heard of zip bombs and similar decompression bomb tricks, where a maliciously crafted input creates a massively disproportionate output. We even had a question on here to do that to a compiler at one point.
Well, it occurs to me that Markdown is a compression format of sorts, replacing bulky HTML tags with "compressed" MD tokens. Therefore, might it be possible to build a compression bomb in Markdown?
Challenge rules:
The submission should be a piece of markdown text, between 50 and 256 characters in length. (Imposing a minimum to head off some smart-aleck posting a 3-character response or similar.)
The submission will be processed by StackExchange's Markdown processor as implemented in this site.
Your score will be the ratio of character count in the resulting HTML to the character count of your Markdown text.
Highest score wins.
asked Sep 19, 2018 at 19:15
Mason Wheeler
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5\$\begingroup\$ The Formatting Sandbox may come in handy for people to test before they post an answer. \$\endgroup\$Engineer Toast– Engineer Toast2018年09月19日 20:36:23 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 20:36
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7\$\begingroup\$ We might need a standard interpreter / viewer / checker system. People are getting different byte counts for the same code because some tags are / are not showing up. \$\endgroup\$Engineer Toast– Engineer Toast2018年09月19日 21:06:51 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 21:06
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3\$\begingroup\$ This is going to devolve into mathjax/latex actual busy beaver code \$\endgroup\$izzyg– izzyg2018年09月20日 02:14:29 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 2:14
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6\$\begingroup\$ Should we count the rendered HTML or the source HTML? Language highlighting and MathJax are done client-side, not server-side. \$\endgroup\$user202729– user2027292018年09月20日 07:23:43 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 7:23
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5\$\begingroup\$ Warning: Testing some large answers to this challenge may exhaust your RAM. \$\endgroup\$user202729– user2027292018年09月20日 10:19:50 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 10:19
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Blockquotes, 137,469/256 = 536.99
6,908 characters, 511 new lines, 130,050 spaces
Markdown sure handles nested block-quotes oddly. Each > character gets turned into <blockquote></blockquote> so a solid 1 to 25 ratio. But wait! When rendering the HTML it also adds two spaces per nesting! Having this try to render causes my browser some grief, and I will keep it in the code-cage for now. Feel free to unlock it yourself!
The code input consists of 255 > followed by (削除) & as the last character doesn't transform, but it does get escaped. Thanks BWO (削除ここまで)! as the last character which gives the last blockquote the spoiler class with an empty p tag inside. Thanks bta, 11 extra characters
Input:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>!
Output HTML:
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<blockquote>
<blockquote class="spoiler">
<p></p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
...
Here is what it looks like in the editor view! crazy nested block quotes, makes a big triangle pointing right!
Plotting the results as the number of > increase as suggested by LambdaBeta:
enter image description here
answered Sep 19, 2018 at 20:43
Namaskar
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2\$\begingroup\$ The funny thing here is, that the blockquotes nicely overflow the article column at least in the editing preview. \$\endgroup\$ilkkachu– ilkkachu2018年09月19日 22:27:05 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 22:27
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4\$\begingroup\$ If you add
!before the ampersand, then the last level of blockquote will get ` class="spoiler"` added to it. Add it to any other level and it shortens the output, though. \$\endgroup\$bta– bta2018年09月20日 00:18:13 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 0:18 -
1\$\begingroup\$ I'm so ashamed I didn't think of this \$\endgroup\$slebetman– slebetman2018年09月20日 04:52:29 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 4:52
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1\$\begingroup\$ Now this is "arrow code" if I've ever seen it. \$\endgroup\$ZeroKnight– ZeroKnight2018年09月21日 06:42:21 +00:00Commented Sep 21, 2018 at 6:42
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3\$\begingroup\$ Nice. This is quadratic growth because the j-th quote adds O(j) new characters, so we get big-O of 1+2+...+n = O(n^2). You can see this from the picture where the triangle's height is the number of quotes n and its width is O(n), so its area is O(n^2). The other non-Mathjax answers seem to be only linear growth (the billion-laughts MathJax one is exponential). \$\endgroup\$usul– usul2018年09月21日 14:37:26 +00:00Commented Sep 21, 2018 at 14:37
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MathJax, 529\$,円\252ドル\$,円\640ドルish / 256 ≈ 2\$,円\067ドル\$,円\393ドル
A good old thousand-laughs-style code
$$\def\a{🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣}\def\b{\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a}\def\c{\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b}\def\d{\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c}\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d$$
multiplies the gross inefficiency of representing exotic characters in MathJax by a considerable factor.
The StackExchange MathJax configuration limitation of 10\$,円\000ドル macro expansions is being honored, while the limitations of the client’s browser, which are highly likely to cause problems expanding the macros, are not. (My browser is uncooperative as well, so the figure is an estimate.)
answered Sep 20, 2018 at 2:05
Roman Odaisky
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2\$\begingroup\$ For anyone else wondering: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack \$\endgroup\$JollyJoker– JollyJoker2018年09月20日 10:00:58 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 10:00
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2\$\begingroup\$ This is a cool find, but it's not Markdown and MathJax is not supported on this site, so it's kind of outside the stated parameters of the rules. \$\endgroup\$Mason Wheeler– Mason Wheeler2018年09月20日 13:10:09 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 13:10
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23\$\begingroup\$ \$are^{you^{sure}}\$ it’s not supported? The page titled "Markdown Editing Help" at codegolf.stackexchange.com/editing-help explicitly mentions LaTeX. \$\endgroup\$Roman Odaisky– Roman Odaisky2018年09月20日 13:27:22 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 13:27
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1\$\begingroup\$ @RomanOdaisky Not at all. You've probably done the calculation yourself, and reached this conclusion. I'm just saying, as a math teacher and enthusiast, that it seems like it would be a cool exercise. \$\endgroup\$Arthur– Arthur2018年09月20日 15:30:46 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 15:30
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6\$\begingroup\$ @KamilDrakari Your wish is my command \$\def\a{🤣🤣}\def\b{\a\a}\def\c{\b\b}\def\d{\c\c}\d\d\$ \$\endgroup\$Roman Odaisky– Roman Odaisky2018年09月20日 17:17:10 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 17:17
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Shorthand links: 68,960 / 256 = 269.375
ASCII only: 10,114 / 256 = 39.508
[][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1][][1]
[1]:ftp://^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Output is a sequence of elements that each look like:
<a href="ftp://%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E" rel="nofollow noreferrer"></a>
After the fixed overhead for creating the URL reference, each 5-character link expands into 42+strlen(url) characters output. Craft the URL to have the maximum number of characters that need escaping, and this grows to 47+3*strlen(url) characters per link. A little experimentation showed that the optimal output involved 26 links, with 114 carets per link.
Update:
If you interpret the "256 character" limit to include Unicode characters, you can squeeze out more chaos. Replacing the carets with the Unicode bathtub character (🛁, codepoint U+1F6C1) results in 47+18*strlen(url) output characters per input character for a total of (削除) 54,574 (削除ここまで) 68,960 (thanks to jimmy23013's even-shorter link notation).
Unicode input:
[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1],[1]
[1]:ftp://🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁
Output is a series of:
<a href="ftp://%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD...per character...%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1</a>,
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15888/50 = 317.76: Abuse of MathJaX
This is the code:
$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$
This is what it looks like:
$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$$$&$$
The resulting HTML is:
<p><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-618-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3081" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3082"><span id="MathJax-Span-3083" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3084"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3085" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-618">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-619-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3086" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3087"><span id="MathJax-Span-3088" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3089"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3090" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-619">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-620-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3091" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3092"><span id="MathJax-Span-3093" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3094"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3095" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-620">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-621-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3096" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3097"><span id="MathJax-Span-3098" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3099"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3100" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-621">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-622-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3101" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3102"><span id="MathJax-Span-3103" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3104"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3105" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-622">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-623-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3106" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3107"><span id="MathJax-Span-3108" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3109"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3110" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-623">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-624-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3111" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3112"><span id="MathJax-Span-3113" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3114"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3115" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-624">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-625-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3116" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3117"><span id="MathJax-Span-3118" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3119"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3120" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-625">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-626-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3121" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3122"><span id="MathJax-Span-3123" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3124"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3125" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-626">&</script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><div class="MathJax_Display" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-627-Frame" tabindex="0" style="text-align: center; position: relative;" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &amp;</mtext></merror></math>" role="presentation"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-3126" style="width: 5.447em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 4.503em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(1.114em, 1004.5em, 2.614em, -999.997em); top: -2.164em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3127"><span id="MathJax-Span-3128" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="merror" id="null"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-3129"><span class="mtext" id="MathJax-Span-3130" style=""><span style="font-size: 83%;">Misplaced &</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 2.169em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.397em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 1.537em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML MJX_Assistive_MathML_Block" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><merror><mtext>Misplaced &</mtext></merror></math></span></span></div><script type="math/tex; mode=display" id="MathJax-Element-627">&</script></p>
Don't forget your MathJax folks.
Caveat: The MathJaX only shows the error during editing, so you have to view it in the editor. This is still a markdown implementation on this site, so should be valid. Once posted the Misplaced & warnings turn into normal &'s.
answered Sep 19, 2018 at 20:57
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Syntax highlighting, (削除) 6376 (削除ここまで) 6464/256 ≈ 25.25
+0.34375 thanks to Ismael Miguel (using a tab instead of 4 spaces)!
This uses the shortest (unfortunately spaces seem to matter) annotation to get syntax-highlighting lang-c, opens a code block and fills it with & and 0:
<!-- language: lang-c -->
&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0
We start with & because it expands to & and use 0 next, alternating these constantly creates new <span> elements with a class attribute. Unfortunately we can't use only & or &<&<... since they stay in the same pun-<div>
It produces:
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class="lit">0</span><span class="pun">&</span><span class="lit">0</span></code></pre></div>
And rendered by your browser it results in:
&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0
answered Sep 19, 2018 at 20:52
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\$\begingroup\$ If you look at the source code for this page, the HTML is just
<pre class="lang-c prettyprint-override"><code>&0&0& ... 0&0&0& </code></pre>where...is more of the same. The span tags aren't there at all. That's a score of 739/256 = 2.887 \$\endgroup\$Engineer Toast– Engineer Toast2018年09月19日 20:56:57 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 20:56 -
\$\begingroup\$ @EngineerToast: What browser? I'm using Firefox 62 and they show up, I noticed with another answer that I get another score, so I guess this depends on the browser.. \$\endgroup\$ბიმო– ბიმო2018年09月19日 21:04:11 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 21:04
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2\$\begingroup\$ Well... That's going to be a problem. I'll ask OP to standardize. \$\endgroup\$Engineer Toast– Engineer Toast2018年09月19日 21:05:36 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 21:05
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\$\begingroup\$ @EngineerToast That's caused by this. \$\endgroup\$user202729– user2027292018年09月20日 10:04:49 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 10:04
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1\$\begingroup\$ Instead of 4 spaces, use a single tab. It works too! \$\endgroup\$Ismael Miguel– Ismael Miguel2018年09月21日 14:59:24 +00:00Commented Sep 21, 2018 at 14:59
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190/50 = 3.8: Italics
As it turns out, your 3-character worry is true. *q* generates <em>q</em> giving a ratio of 10/3. Two carriage returns give <p>...</p>\n\n (the two carriage returns aren't necessary, but do appear to be produced) and a resulting ratio of 9/2. Total ratio, 19/5.
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
*q*
Resulting html:
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
<p><em>q</em></p>
In action:
q
q
q
q
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answered Sep 19, 2018 at 19:54
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1\$\begingroup\$ Using
> qto use<blockquote>instead of<em>is better. (note: you do it to every other line, otherwise its just one tag) \$\endgroup\$LambdaBeta– LambdaBeta2018年09月19日 20:32:52 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 20:32 -
\$\begingroup\$ @LambdaBeta I didn't even think about Blockquote. Yeah, that one exploded. \$\endgroup\$Draco18s no longer trusts SE– Draco18s no longer trusts SE2018年09月19日 21:01:23 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 21:01
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222/53 = <4.2: Nasty escapes in an image inclusion.
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> 
Results in:
&
&
&
Resulting HTML should be approximately:
<blockquote>
<p><img src="https://&" alt="&" title=""></p>
</blockquote>
<p><img src="https://&" alt="&" title=""></p>
<blockquote>
<p><img src="https://&" alt="&" title=""></p>
</blockquote>
This abuses image inclusion and having to escape things.
It used to be much better, but apparently SE's markdown is sufficiently non-standard to ruin it.
My previous submission (which wasn't how SE rendered it) was:
(削除) 428/50 = 8.56: Nasty escapes in an image inclusion. (削除ここまで)
Resulting HTML should be approximately:
<p><img src="&" alt="&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;"></p>
This abuses the fact that most markdown editors will replace the ampersands in the alt text with doubly-escaped ampersands in order for it to show up correctly. Meanwhile a single ampersand is tossed into the src section so that the parser will actually see it as an image.
answered Sep 19, 2018 at 20:13
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\$\begingroup\$ Would ε be translated to ε or ε? \$\endgroup\$Jonathan Frech– Jonathan Frech2018年09月19日 20:19:12 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 20:19
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\$\begingroup\$ I don't know. As far as I can tell it doesn't actually work - debugging it a bit now. I used & because in theory for alt-text to show up correctly it has to be escaped twice (&amp;). This works in most markdowns, but doesn't seem to produce any output at all in SE... \$\endgroup\$LambdaBeta– LambdaBeta2018年09月19日 20:20:19 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 20:20
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[1]:https://&on a line, and then use![&][1]more times? \$\endgroup\$wizzwizz4– wizzwizz42018年09月20日 20:35:48 +00:00Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 20:35
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MathJax: 13,579 / 52 = 261.13
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Just creates a bunch of empty in-line MathJax:
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HTML Code (can inspect on the empty space above):
<p><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-1064-Frame" tabindex="0" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" />" role="presentation" style="position: relative;"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-2127" style="width: 0em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 0em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(3.785em, 1000em, 4.17em, -999.997em); top: -3.971em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-2128"></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 3.978em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.073em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 0.158em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"></math></span></span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-1064"></script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-1065-Frame" tabindex="0" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" />" role="presentation" style="position: relative;"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-2129" style="width: 0em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 0em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(3.785em, 1000em, 4.17em, -999.997em); top: -3.971em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-2130"></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 3.978em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.073em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 0.158em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"></math></span></span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-1065"></script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-1066-Frame" tabindex="0" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" />" role="presentation" style="position: relative;"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-2131" style="width: 0em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 0em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(3.785em, 1000em, 4.17em, -999.997em); top: -3.971em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-2132"></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 3.978em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.073em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 0.158em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"></math></span></span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-1066"></script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-1067-Frame" tabindex="0" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" />" role="presentation" style="position: relative;"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-2133" style="width: 0em; display: inline-block;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 0em; height: 0px; font-size: 120%;"><span style="position: absolute; clip: rect(3.785em, 1000em, 4.17em, -999.997em); top: -3.971em; left: 0em;"><span class="mrow" id="MathJax-Span-2134"></span><span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; height: 3.978em;"></span></span></span><span style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: -0.073em; border-left: 0px solid; width: 0px; height: 0.158em;"></span></span></nobr><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML" role="presentation"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"></math></span></span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-1067"></script><span class="MathJax_Preview" style="display: none;"></span><span class="MathJax" id="MathJax-Element-1068-Frame" tabindex="0" data-mathml="<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" />" role="presentation" style="position: relative;"><nobr aria-hidden="true"><span class="math" id="MathJax-Span-2135" style="width: 0em; 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answered Sep 19, 2018 at 20:58
Stephen
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\$\begingroup\$ You can get more with errors. Take a look at my answer. \$\endgroup\$LambdaBeta– LambdaBeta2018年09月19日 21:00:48 +00:00Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 21:00
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4830 / 256 = 18.87
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An idea based on HTML autocorrect. Not quite high score though.
answered Sep 20, 2018 at 12:21
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answered Sep 19, 2018 at 20:47
Engineer Toast
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11190 / 255 = ~43.88
I was inspired by this top answer, but am too dumb to beat it and reached the max character count so, I guess I'll have to be satisfied with what I have ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄. There's actually two spaces after the last blockquote, but the formatting does not show it.
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2\$\begingroup\$ the code itself looks like a blockquote \$\endgroup\$qwr– qwr2018年09月23日 23:45:29 +00:00Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 23:45