READMEs: Import problem-specifications commits

exercises/acronym/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Techies love their TLA (Three Letter Acronyms)!
 Help generate some jargon by writing a program that converts a long name
 like Portable Network Graphics to its acronym (PNG).
 
-
 ## Rust Installation
 
 Refer to the [exercism help page][help-page] for Rust installation and learning

exercises/all-your-base/README.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Implement general base conversion. Given a number in base **a**,
 represented as a sequence of digits, convert it to base **b**.
 
 ## Note
+
 - Try to implement the conversion yourself.
   Do not use something else to perform the conversion for you.
 
@@ -28,7 +29,6 @@ The number 1120, *in base 3*, means:
 
 I think you got the idea!
 
-
 *Yes. Those three numbers above are exactly the same. Congratulations!*
 
 ## Rust Installation

exercises/allergies/README.md

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ allergens that score 256, 512, 1024, etc.).  Your program should
 ignore those components of the score.  For example, if the allergy
 score is 257, your program should only report the eggs (1) allergy.
 
-
 ## Rust Installation
 
 Refer to the [exercism help page][help-page] for Rust installation and learning

exercises/alphametics/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ letters in words are replaced with numbers.
 
 For example `SEND + MORE = MONEY`:
 
-```
+```text
   S E N D
   M O R E +
 -----------
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ M O N E Y
 
 Replacing these with valid numbers gives:
 
-```
+```text
   9 5 6 7
   1 0 8 5 +
 -----------

exercises/atbash-cipher/README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ letter, the second with the second-last, and so on.
 
 An Atbash cipher for the Latin alphabet would be as follows:
 
-```plain
+```text
 Plain:  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 Cipher: zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
 ```
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ being 5 letters, and punctuation is excluded. This is to make it harder to guess
 things based on word boundaries.
 
 ## Examples
+
 - Encoding `test` gives `gvhg`
 - Decoding `gvhg` gives `test`
 - Decoding `gsvjf rxpyi ldmul cqfnk hlevi gsvoz abwlt` gives `thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog`

exercises/beer-song/README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Produce the lyrics to that beloved classic, that field-trip favorite: 99 Bottles
 
 Note that not all verses are identical.
 
-```plain
+```text
 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer.
 Take one down and pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
 

exercises/bowling/README.md

@@ -2,19 +2,29 @@
 
 Score a bowling game.
 
-Bowling is game where players roll a heavy ball to knock down pins
+Bowling is a game where players roll a heavy ball to knock down pins
 arranged in a triangle. Write code to keep track of the score
 of a game of bowling.
 
 ## Scoring Bowling
 
-The game consists of 10 frames. A frame is composed of one or two ball throws with 10 pins standing at frame initialization. There are three cases for the tabulation of a frame.
+The game consists of 10 frames. A frame is composed of one or two ball
+throws with 10 pins standing at frame initialization. There are three
+cases for the tabulation of a frame.
 
-* An open frame is where a score of less than 10 is recorded for the frame. In this case the score for the frame is the number of pins knocked down.
+* An open frame is where a score of less than 10 is recorded for the
+  frame. In this case the score for the frame is the number of pins
+  knocked down.
 
-* A spare is where all ten pins are knocked down after the second throw. The total value of a spare is 10 plus the number of pins knocked down in their next throw.
+* A spare is where all ten pins are knocked down by the second
+  throw. The total value of a spare is 10 plus the number of pins
+  knocked down in their next throw.
 
-* A strike is where all ten pins are knocked down after the first throw. The total value of a strike is 10 plus the number of pins knocked down in their next two throws. If a strike is immediately followed by a second strike, then we can not total the value of first strike until they throw the ball one more time.
+* A strike is where all ten pins are knocked down by the first
+  throw. The total value of a strike is 10 plus the number of pins
+  knocked down in the next two throws. If a strike is immediately
+  followed by a second strike, then the value of the first strike
+  cannot be determined until the ball is thrown one more time.
 
 Here is a three frame example:
 
@@ -30,7 +40,11 @@ Frame 3 is (9 + 0) = 9
 
 This means the current running total is 48.
 
-The tenth frame in the game is a special case. If someone throws a strike or a spare then they get a fill ball. Fill balls exist to calculate the total of the 10th frame. Scoring a strike or spare on the fill ball does not give the player more fill balls. The total value of the 10th frame is the total number of pins knocked down.
+The tenth frame in the game is a special case. If someone throws a
+strike or a spare then they get a fill ball. Fill balls exist to
+calculate the total of the 10th frame. Scoring a strike or spare on
+the fill ball does not give the player more fill balls. The total
+value of the 10th frame is the total number of pins knocked down.
 
 For a tenth frame of X1/ (strike and a spare), the total value is 20.
 

exercises/circular-buffer/README.md

@@ -31,18 +31,25 @@ If the buffer has 7 elements then it is completely full:
 When the buffer is full an error will be raised, alerting the client
 that further writes are blocked until a slot becomes free.
 
-The client can opt to overwrite the oldest data with a forced write. In
-this case, two more elements — A & B — are added and they overwrite the
-3 & 4:
+When the buffer is full, the client can opt to overwrite the oldest
+data with a forced write. In this case, two more elements — A & B —
+are added and they overwrite the 3 & 4:
 
     [6][7][8][9][A][B][5]
 
-Finally, if two elements are now removed then what would be returned is
-not 3 & 4 but 5 & 6 because A & B overwrote the 3 & the 4 yielding the
-buffer with:
+3 & 4 have been replaced by A & B making 5 now the oldest data in the
+buffer. Finally, if two elements are removed then what would be
+returned is 5 & 6 yielding the buffer:
 
     [ ][7][8][9][A][B][ ]
 
+Because there is space available, if the client again uses overwrite
+to store C & D then the space where 5 & 6 were stored previously will
+be used not the location of 7 & 8. 7 is still the oldest element and
+the buffer is once again full.
+
+    [D][7][8][9][A][B][C]
+
 ## Rust Installation
 
 Refer to the [exercism help page][help-page] for Rust installation and learning

exercises/crypto-square/README.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ and `r` is the number of rows.
 Our normalized text is 54 characters long, dictating a rectangle with
 `c = 8` and `r = 7`:
 
-```plain
+```text
 ifmanwas
 meanttos
 tayonthe
@@ -41,22 +41,24 @@ right.
 
 The message above is coded as:
 
-```plain
+```text
 imtgdvsfearwermayoogoanouuiontnnlvtwttddesaohghnsseoau
 ```
 
-Output the encoded text in chunks.  Phrases that fill perfect squares
-`(r X r)` should be output in `r`-length chunks separated by spaces.
-Imperfect squares will have `n` empty spaces.  Those spaces should be distributed evenly across the last `n` rows.
+Output the encoded text in chunks.  Phrases that fill perfect rectangles
+`(r X c)` should be output `c` chunks of `r` length, separated by spaces.
+Phrases that do not fill perfect rectangles will have `n` empty spaces.
+Those spaces should be distributed evenly, added to the end of the last
+`n` chunks.
 
-```plain
-imtgdvs fearwer mayoogo anouuio ntnnlvt wttddes aohghn sseoau
+```text
+imtgdvs fearwer mayoogo anouuio ntnnlvt wttddes aohghn  sseoau 
 ```
 
 Notice that were we to stack these, we could visually decode the
 cyphertext back in to the original message:
 
-```plain
+```text
 imtgdvs
 fearwer
 mayoogo

exercises/etl/README.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 We are going to do the `Transform` step of an Extract-Transform-Load.
 
 ### ETL
+
 Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) is a fancy way of saying, "We have some crufty, legacy data over in this system, and now we need it in this shiny new system over here, so
 we're going to migrate this."
 
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ once." That's then typically followed by much forehead slapping and
 moaning about how stupid we could possibly be.)
 
 ### The goal
+
 We're going to extract some scrabble scores from a legacy system.
 
 The old system stored a list of letters per score:

exercises/grade-school/README.md

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ In the end, you should be able to:
 Note that all our students only have one name.  (It's a small town, what
 do you want?)
 
-
 ## For bonus points
 
 Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these

exercises/grains/README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Write code that shows:
 - how many grains were on each square, and
 - the total number of grains
 
-
 ## For bonus points
 
 Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these

exercises/leap/README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Given a year, report if it is a leap year.
 
 The tricky thing here is that a leap year in the Gregorian calendar occurs:
 
-```plain
+```text
 on every year that is evenly divisible by 4
   except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
     unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400

exercises/luhn/README.md

@@ -18,47 +18,47 @@ are disallowed.
 
 ## Example 1: valid credit card number
 
-```
+```text
 4539 1488 0343 6467
 ```
 
 The first step of the Luhn algorithm is to double every second digit,
 starting from the right. We will be doubling
 
-```
+```text
 4_3_ 1_8_ 0_4_ 6_6_
 ```
 
 If doubling the number results in a number greater than 9 then subtract 9
 from the product. The results of our doubling:
 
-```
+```text
 8569 2478 0383 3437
 ```
 
 Then sum all of the digits:
 
-```
+```text
 8+5+6+9+2+4+7+8+0+3+8+3+3+4+3+7 = 80
 ```
 
 If the sum is evenly divisible by 10, then the number is valid. This number is valid!
 
 ## Example 2: invalid credit card number
 
-```
+```text
 8273 1232 7352 0569
 ```
 
 Double the second digits, starting from the right
 
-```
+```text
 7253 2262 5312 0539
 ```
 
 Sum the digits
 
-```
+```text
 7+2+5+3+2+2+6+2+5+3+1+2+0+5+3+9 = 57
 ```
 

exercises/nucleotide-count/README.md

@@ -1,30 +1,16 @@
 # Nucleotide Count
 
-Given a DNA string, compute how many times each nucleotide occurs in the string.
+Given a single stranded DNA string, compute how many times each nucleotide occurs in the string.
 
-DNA is represented by an alphabet of the following symbols: 'A', 'C',
-'G', and 'T'.
-
-Each symbol represents a nucleotide, which is a fancy name for the
-particular molecules that happen to make up a large part of DNA.
-
-Shortest intro to biochemistry EVAR:
+The genetic language of every living thing on the planet is DNA. 
+DNA is a large molecule that is built from an extremely long sequence of individual elements called nucleotides. 
+4 types exist in DNA and these differ only slightly and can be represented as the following symbols: 'A' for adenine, 'C' for cytosine, 'G' for guanine, and 'T' thymine.
 
+Here is an analogy:
 - twigs are to birds nests as
-- nucleotides are to DNA and RNA as
-- amino acids are to proteins as
-- sugar is to starch as
-- oh crap lipids
-
-I'm not going to talk about lipids because they're crazy complex.
-
-So back to nucleotides.
-
-DNA contains four types of them: adenine (`A`), cytosine (`C`), guanine
-(`G`), and thymine (`T`).
-
-RNA contains a slightly different set of nucleotides, but we don't care
-about that for now.
+- nucleotides are to DNA as
+- legos are to lego houses as
+- words are to sentences as...
 
 ## Rust Installation
 

exercises/ocr-numbers/README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ To begin with, convert a simple binary font to a string containing 0 or 1.
 
 The binary font uses pipes and underscores, four rows high and three columns wide.
 
-```
+```text
      _   #
     | |  # zero.
     |_|  #
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The binary font uses pipes and underscores, four rows high and three columns wid
 
 Is converted to "0"
 
-```
+```text
          #
       |  # one.
       |  #
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Update your program to recognize multi-character binary strings, replacing garbl
 
 Update your program to recognize all numbers 0 through 9, both individually and as part of a larger string.
 
-```
+```text
  _ 
  _|
 |_ 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Update your program to recognize all numbers 0 through 9, both individually and
 
 Is converted to "2"
 
-```
+```text
       _  _     _  _  _  _  _  _  #
     | _| _||_||_ |_   ||_||_|| | # decimal numbers.
     ||_  _|  | _||_|  ||_| _||_| #
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Is converted to "1234567890"
 
 Update your program to handle multiple numbers, one per line. When converting several lines, join the lines with commas.
 
-```
+```text
     _  _ 
   | _| _|
   ||_  _|

exercises/pangram/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Determine if a sentence is a pangram. A pangram (Greek: παν γράμμα, pan gramma,
 "every letter") is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
-The best known English pangram is: 
+The best known English pangram is:
 > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
 
 The alphabet used consists of ASCII letters `a` to `z`, inclusive, and is case

exercises/pascals-triangle/README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Compute Pascal's triangle up to a given number of rows.
 In Pascal's Triangle each number is computed by adding the numbers to
 the right and left of the current position in the previous row.
 
-```plain
+```text
     1
    1 1
   1 2 1