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+# Binary
+
+Convert a binary number, represented as a string (e.g. '101010'), to its decimal equivalent using first principles.
+
+Implement binary to decimal conversion. Given a binary input
+string, your program should produce a decimal output. The
+program should handle invalid inputs.
+
+## Note
+- Implement the conversion yourself.
+  Do not use something else to perform the conversion for you.
+
+## About Binary (Base-2)
+Decimal is a base-10 system.
+
+A number 23 in base 10 notation can be understood
+as a linear combination of powers of 10:
+
+- The rightmost digit gets multiplied by 10^0 = 1
+- The next number gets multiplied by 10^1 = 10
+- ...
+- The *n*th number gets multiplied by 10^*(n-1)*.
+- All these values are summed.
+
+So: `23 => 2*10^1 + 3*10^0 => 2*10 + 3*1 = 23 base 10`
+
+Binary is similar, but uses powers of 2 rather than powers of 10.
+
+So: `101 => 1*2^2 + 0*2^1 + 1*2^0 => 1*4 + 0*2 + 1*1 => 4 + 1 => 5 base 10`.
+
+## Setup
+
+Check out [Exercism Help](http://exercism.io/languages/lisp) for instructions to
+get started writing Common Lisp. That page will explain how to install and setup
+a Lisp implementation and how to run the tests.
+
+## Formatting
+
+While Common Lisp doesn't care about indentation and layout of code,
+nor whether you use spaces or tabs, this is an important consideration
+for submissions to exercism.io. Excercism.io's code widget cannot
+handle mixing of tab and space characters well so using only spaces is recommended to make
+the code more readable to the human reviewers. Please review your
+editors settings on how to accomplish this. Below are instructions for
+popular editors for Common Lisp.
+
+### VIM
+
+Use the following commands to ensure VIM uses only spaces for
+indentation:
+
+```vimscript
+:set tabstop=2
+:set shiftwidth=2
+:set expandtab
+```
+
+(or as a oneliner `:set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab`). This can
+be added to your `~/.vimrc` file to use it all the time.
+
+### Emacs
+
+Emacs is very well suited for editing Common Lisp and has many
+powerful add-on packages available. The only thing that one needs to
+do with a stock emacs to make it work well with exercism.io is to
+evaluate the following code:
+
+`(setq indent-tab-mode nil)`
+
+This can be placed in your `~/.emacs` (or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`) in
+order to have it set whenever Emacs is launched.
+
+One suggested add-on for Emacs and Common Lisp is
+[SLIME](https://github.com/slime/slime) which offers tight integration
+with the REPL; making iterative coding and testing very easy.
+
+## Source
+
+All of Computer Science [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binary&a=*C.binary-_*MathWorld-](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binary&a=*C.binary-_*MathWorld-)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

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+# Bob
+
+Bob is a lackadaisical teenager. In conversation, his responses are very limited.
+
+Bob answers 'Sure.' if you ask him a question.
+
+He answers 'Whoa, chill out!' if you yell at him.
+
+He says 'Fine. Be that way!' if you address him without actually saying
+anything.
+
+He answers 'Whatever.' to anything else.
+
+## Setup
+
+Check out [Exercism Help](http://exercism.io/languages/lisp) for instructions to
+get started writing Common Lisp. That page will explain how to install and setup
+a Lisp implementation and how to run the tests.
+
+## Formatting
+
+While Common Lisp doesn't care about indentation and layout of code,
+nor whether you use spaces or tabs, this is an important consideration
+for submissions to exercism.io. Excercism.io's code widget cannot
+handle mixing of tab and space characters well so using only spaces is recommended to make
+the code more readable to the human reviewers. Please review your
+editors settings on how to accomplish this. Below are instructions for
+popular editors for Common Lisp.
+
+### VIM
+
+Use the following commands to ensure VIM uses only spaces for
+indentation:
+
+```vimscript
+:set tabstop=2
+:set shiftwidth=2
+:set expandtab
+```
+
+(or as a oneliner `:set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab`). This can
+be added to your `~/.vimrc` file to use it all the time.
+
+### Emacs
+
+Emacs is very well suited for editing Common Lisp and has many
+powerful add-on packages available. The only thing that one needs to
+do with a stock emacs to make it work well with exercism.io is to
+evaluate the following code:
+
+`(setq indent-tab-mode nil)`
+
+This can be placed in your `~/.emacs` (or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`) in
+order to have it set whenever Emacs is launched.
+
+One suggested add-on for Emacs and Common Lisp is
+[SLIME](https://github.com/slime/slime) which offers tight integration
+with the REPL; making iterative coding and testing very easy.
+
+## Source
+
+Inspired by the 'Deaf Grandma' exercise in Chris Pine's Learn to Program tutorial. [http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06](http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

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+# Crypto Square
+
+Implement the classic method for composing secret messages called a square code.
+
+Given an English text, output the encoded version of that text.
+
+First, the input is normalized: the spaces and punctuation are removed
+from the English text and the message is downcased.
+
+Then, the normalized characters are broken into rows.  These rows can be
+regarded as forming a rectangle when printed with intervening newlines.
+
+For example, the sentence
+
+> If man was meant to stay on the ground, god would have given us roots.
+
+is normalized to:
+
+> ifmanwasmeanttostayonthegroundgodwouldhavegivenusroots
+
+The plaintext should be organized in to a rectangle.  The size of the
+rectangle (`r x c`) should be decided by the length of the message,
+such that `c >= r` and `c - r <= 1`, where `c` is the number of columns
+and `r` is the number of rows.
+
+Our normalized text is 54 characters long, dictating a rectangle with
+`c = 8` and `r = 7`:
+
+```plain
+ifmanwas
+meanttos
+tayonthe
+groundgo
+dwouldha
+vegivenu
+sroots
+```
+
+The coded message is obtained by reading down the columns going left to
+right.
+
+The message above is coded as:
+
+```plain
+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.
+
+```plain
+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
+imtgdvs
+fearwer
+mayoogo
+anouuio
+ntnnlvt
+wttddes
+aohghn
+sseoau
+```
+
+## Setup
+
+Check out [Exercism Help](http://exercism.io/languages/lisp) for instructions to
+get started writing Common Lisp. That page will explain how to install and setup
+a Lisp implementation and how to run the tests.
+
+## Formatting
+
+While Common Lisp doesn't care about indentation and layout of code,
+nor whether you use spaces or tabs, this is an important consideration
+for submissions to exercism.io. Excercism.io's code widget cannot
+handle mixing of tab and space characters well so using only spaces is recommended to make
+the code more readable to the human reviewers. Please review your
+editors settings on how to accomplish this. Below are instructions for
+popular editors for Common Lisp.
+
+### VIM
+
+Use the following commands to ensure VIM uses only spaces for
+indentation:
+
+```vimscript
+:set tabstop=2
+:set shiftwidth=2
+:set expandtab
+```
+
+(or as a oneliner `:set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab`). This can
+be added to your `~/.vimrc` file to use it all the time.
+
+### Emacs
+
+Emacs is very well suited for editing Common Lisp and has many
+powerful add-on packages available. The only thing that one needs to
+do with a stock emacs to make it work well with exercism.io is to
+evaluate the following code:
+
+`(setq indent-tab-mode nil)`
+
+This can be placed in your `~/.emacs` (or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`) in
+order to have it set whenever Emacs is launched.
+
+One suggested add-on for Emacs and Common Lisp is
+[SLIME](https://github.com/slime/slime) which offers tight integration
+with the REPL; making iterative coding and testing very easy.
+
+## Source
+
+J Dalbey's Programming Practice problems [http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html](http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

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+# Difference Of Squares
+
+Find the difference between the square of the sum and the sum of the squares of the first N natural numbers.
+
+The square of the sum of the first ten natural numbers is
+(1 + 2 + ... + 10)² = 55² = 3025.
+
+The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is
+1² + 2² + ... + 10² = 385.
+
+Hence the difference between the square of the sum of the first
+ten natural numbers and the sum of the squares of the first ten
+natural numbers is 3025 - 385 = 2640.
+
+## Setup
+
+Check out [Exercism Help](http://exercism.io/languages/lisp) for instructions to
+get started writing Common Lisp. That page will explain how to install and setup
+a Lisp implementation and how to run the tests.
+
+## Formatting
+
+While Common Lisp doesn't care about indentation and layout of code,
+nor whether you use spaces or tabs, this is an important consideration
+for submissions to exercism.io. Excercism.io's code widget cannot
+handle mixing of tab and space characters well so using only spaces is recommended to make
+the code more readable to the human reviewers. Please review your
+editors settings on how to accomplish this. Below are instructions for
+popular editors for Common Lisp.
+
+### VIM
+
+Use the following commands to ensure VIM uses only spaces for
+indentation:
+
+```vimscript
+:set tabstop=2
+:set shiftwidth=2
+:set expandtab
+```
+
+(or as a oneliner `:set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab`). This can
+be added to your `~/.vimrc` file to use it all the time.
+
+### Emacs
+
+Emacs is very well suited for editing Common Lisp and has many
+powerful add-on packages available. The only thing that one needs to
+do with a stock emacs to make it work well with exercism.io is to
+evaluate the following code:
+
+`(setq indent-tab-mode nil)`
+
+This can be placed in your `~/.emacs` (or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`) in
+order to have it set whenever Emacs is launched.
+
+One suggested add-on for Emacs and Common Lisp is
+[SLIME](https://github.com/slime/slime) which offers tight integration
+with the REPL; making iterative coding and testing very easy.
+
+## Source
+
+Problem 6 at Project Euler [http://projecteuler.net/problem=6](http://projecteuler.net/problem=6)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

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+# Etl
+
+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."
+
+(Typically, this is followed by, "We're only going to need to run this
+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:
+
+- 1 point: "A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "L", "N", "R", "S", "T",
+- 2 points: "D", "G",
+- 3 points: "B", "C", "M", "P",
+- 4 points: "F", "H", "V", "W", "Y",
+- 5 points: "K",
+- 8 points: "J", "X",
+- 10 points: "Q", "Z",
+
+The shiny new scrabble system instead stores the score per letter, which
+makes it much faster and easier to calculate the score for a word. It
+also stores the letters in lower-case regardless of the case of the
+input letters:
+
+- "a" is worth 1 point.
+- "b" is worth 3 points.
+- "c" is worth 3 points.
+- "d" is worth 2 points.
+- Etc.
+
+Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to transform the legacy data
+format to the shiny new format.
+
+### Notes
+
+A final note about scoring, Scrabble is played around the world in a
+variety of languages, each with its own unique scoring table. For
+example, an "E" is scored at 2 in the Māori-language version of the
+game while being scored at 4 in the Hawaiian-language version.
+
+## Setup
+
+Check out [Exercism Help](http://exercism.io/languages/lisp) for instructions to
+get started writing Common Lisp. That page will explain how to install and setup
+a Lisp implementation and how to run the tests.
+
+## Formatting
+
+While Common Lisp doesn't care about indentation and layout of code,
+nor whether you use spaces or tabs, this is an important consideration
+for submissions to exercism.io. Excercism.io's code widget cannot
+handle mixing of tab and space characters well so using only spaces is recommended to make
+the code more readable to the human reviewers. Please review your
+editors settings on how to accomplish this. Below are instructions for
+popular editors for Common Lisp.
+
+### VIM
+
+Use the following commands to ensure VIM uses only spaces for
+indentation:
+
+```vimscript
+:set tabstop=2
+:set shiftwidth=2
+:set expandtab
+```
+
+(or as a oneliner `:set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab`). This can
+be added to your `~/.vimrc` file to use it all the time.
+
+### Emacs
+
+Emacs is very well suited for editing Common Lisp and has many
+powerful add-on packages available. The only thing that one needs to
+do with a stock emacs to make it work well with exercism.io is to
+evaluate the following code:
+
+`(setq indent-tab-mode nil)`
+
+This can be placed in your `~/.emacs` (or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`) in
+order to have it set whenever Emacs is launched.
+
+One suggested add-on for Emacs and Common Lisp is
+[SLIME](https://github.com/slime/slime) which offers tight integration
+with the REPL; making iterative coding and testing very easy.
+
+## Source
+
+The Jumpstart Lab team [http://jumpstartlab.com](http://jumpstartlab.com)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

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+# Gigasecond
+
+Calculate the moment when someone has lived for 10^9 seconds.
+
+A gigasecond is 10^9 (1,000,000,000) seconds.
+
+## Setup
+
+Check out [Exercism Help](http://exercism.io/languages/lisp) for instructions to
+get started writing Common Lisp. That page will explain how to install and setup
+a Lisp implementation and how to run the tests.
+
+## Formatting
+
+While Common Lisp doesn't care about indentation and layout of code,
+nor whether you use spaces or tabs, this is an important consideration
+for submissions to exercism.io. Excercism.io's code widget cannot
+handle mixing of tab and space characters well so using only spaces is recommended to make
+the code more readable to the human reviewers. Please review your
+editors settings on how to accomplish this. Below are instructions for
+popular editors for Common Lisp.
+
+### VIM
+
+Use the following commands to ensure VIM uses only spaces for
+indentation:
+
+```vimscript
+:set tabstop=2
+:set shiftwidth=2
+:set expandtab
+```
+
+(or as a oneliner `:set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab`). This can
+be added to your `~/.vimrc` file to use it all the time.
+
+### Emacs
+
+Emacs is very well suited for editing Common Lisp and has many
+powerful add-on packages available. The only thing that one needs to
+do with a stock emacs to make it work well with exercism.io is to
+evaluate the following code:
+
+`(setq indent-tab-mode nil)`
+
+This can be placed in your `~/.emacs` (or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`) in
+order to have it set whenever Emacs is launched.
+
+One suggested add-on for Emacs and Common Lisp is
+[SLIME](https://github.com/slime/slime) which offers tight integration
+with the REPL; making iterative coding and testing very easy.
+
+## Source
+
+Chapter 9 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. [http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09](http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09)
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.