Dagger-ed Problems

Now we can also rate our problem difficulty with daggers like in the Daily Problems.

$\text{\Large Sharper Than Most - } \Huge \color{grey} \dagger \dagger \dagger$

We can color them and change their sizes too, all using $\LaTeX$ :)

\dagger is the command to make a dagger, but it appears small, so use \Huge to make it bigger.

Color command works on the dagger, so using \color{<colorname>} \dagger will color your dagger with any color.

Use text before the dagger to write "Sharper than most" and all that stuff. Make your text and dagger to appropriate size, I suggest using \Large for the text and \Huge for the dagger, but its your choice :)

\dagger doesn't work inside the \text{} so be careful.

Post any queries that you have in the comments.

Discovered by $Páll \ Marton$ and $Percy \ Jackson$

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Comments

@Kumudesh Ghosh Here are all the secrets to immeasurable power :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

$\LARGE \text{Honed to a Razor-Edge} \ \Huge \color{grey} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger$

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! use 5 daggers for Honed to Razor-edge, 4 daggers is Seriously serrated :) @Nathan Soliman

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

$\LARGE \text{Honed to a razor-edge} \ \Huge \color{silver} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger$

$\LARGE \text{Seriously Serrated} \ \Huge \color{silver} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger$

$\LARGE \text{Sharper than Most} \ \Huge \color{silver} \dagger \dagger \dagger$

$\LARGE \text{Small, but Pointy} \ \Huge \color{silver} \dagger \dagger$

$\LARGE \text{Tis' but a scratch} \ \Huge \color{silver} \dagger$

That's all the daggers, I'll update when a 0-dagger problem comes LOL

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

$\Large \text{Honed to a Razor Edge} \ \Huge \color{grey} \dagger \dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

$\Large \text{BEYOND YOUR LEVEL} \ \Huge \color{grey} \dagger \dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Damn, you learn quick kid! :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

thx

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr, @Páll Márton, @Mahdi Raza, @Siddharth Chakravarty, @Vinayak Srivastava, @Kumudesh Ghosh, @Kriti Kamal, @Jeff Tian, @Jeff Giff

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nice!

@Percy Jackson and @Páll Márton, what made you to type \dagger in $\LaTeX$ ?

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Found it on a $\LaTeX \ Wikibook$

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Oh...

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr – link

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Yes, I am reading the superior rap that you made in yesterday's daily challenge...

@Percy Jackson, I feel bored...

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr – I win, admit it. That one rap roasted all of you LOL

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – @Percy Jackson bro, I posted that rap to make everyone calm down. Didn't you read it? It said to make today's solution with both rap and text, making it easy and fun to read

The rap wasn't offensive to me, but I said you this so that you can understand what I mean to say...

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr – I can't let the ending rap be peaceful, now can I? I saw it, but it started with 'God, all your raps suck', so I posted a reply to all raps, in one giant heck of a rap/roast LOL

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Yeah. My name is Márton :) BTW I found how to write this: $<code>$.You should write: \(code\\) I used more backslashes and brackets to write how to write it(LOL). Anyway I guess if you put the daggers into a title-1, then it will be brighter and bigger(with normal fontsize and without coloring):

$\dagger$

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

There is a little gap between the first and second daggers

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

$\large\text{Tis' but a scratch }\LARGE\color{#D61F06}\dagger\color{grey}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Percy Jackson

@Páll Márton

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Percy Jackson, I have corrected it, and made it cooler

I used \LARGE instead of \Huge for the daggers

\large for the text

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

🗡️ No fair! Copy/Pate Emojis aren't allowed.

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

@Nathan Soliman - Here ya go

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

/dagger

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

\dagger not /dagger

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

\dagger

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

I sent the pic on the Daily Problem, go check it @Nathan Soliman

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

i dont see anything

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

I mentioned you, so check again

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

do colour commands go before or after

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

before :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

before huge?

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

not before huge :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 3 weeks ago

$\Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Tis’ But A Scratch} \Huge \color{#69047E} \dagger \color{lavender} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \\ \color{#333333} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Small but Pointy} \Huge \color{#E81990} \dagger \dagger \color{lightpink} \dagger \dagger \dagger \\ \color{#333333} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Sharper than Most} \Huge \color{#3D99F6} \dagger \dagger \dagger \color{#95D3FE} \dagger \dagger \\ \color{#333333} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Seriously Serrated} \Huge \color{#20A900} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \color{#67D94C} \dagger \\ \color{#333333} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Honed to a Razor-Edge} \Huge \color{#D61F06} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \color{#D61F06} \dagger$

$\Downarrow$ $\LaTeX$ Code $\Downarrow$

\Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Tis’ But A Scratch} \Huge \color{purple} \dagger \color{lavender} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \ \color{black} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Small but Pointy} \Huge \color{pink} \dagger \dagger \color{lightpink} \dagger \dagger \dagger \ \color{black} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Sharper than Most} \Huge \color{blue} \dagger \dagger \dagger \color{lightblue} \dagger \dagger \ \color{black} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Seriously Serrated} \Huge \color{green} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \color{lightgreen} \dagger \ \color{black} \Large \text{Problem Difficulty : Honed to a Razor-Edge} \Huge \color{red} \dagger \dagger \dagger \dagger \color{red} \dagger

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

$\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger$

$\large\text{Small, but Pointy}\LARGE\color{#E81990}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger$

$\large\text{Sharper than Most}\LARGE\color{#D61F06}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger$

$\large\text{Seriously Serrated}\LARGE\color{#69047E}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger$

$\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{#333333}{†††††}$

Code

\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger

\large\text{Small, but Pointy}\LARGE\color{pink}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger

\large\text{Sharper than Most}\LARGE\color{red}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger

\large\text{Seriously Serrated}\LARGE\color{purple}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger

\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{black}{†††††}

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

$\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }\Huge\color{gold}\boldsymbol{\colorbox{#333333}{†††††}}$

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

how did you make the daggers fat @Páll Márton, I know you didn't feed them monster meat, so just tell me the proper answer, what latex did you use ????

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – \boldsymbol{} In my $\LaTeX$ guide you can see it :) BTW I don't understand your movie jokes

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Not a movie joke, but nevermind, thanks for boldsymbol :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

To put your dagger inside a colorbox, you can't use the dagger command, instead you'll have to make a dagger first $\dagger$ then copy it, and paste it in the colorbox text space

\colorbox{blue}{\color{white}This is a copy/pasted dagger - †}

Looks like this -

$\colorbox{#3D99F6}{\color{#FFFFFF}This is a copy/pasted dagger - †}$

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

$\begin{aligned}\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }&\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger \\ \color{#333333} \large\text{Small, but Pointy}&\LARGE\color{#E81990}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger \\ \color{#333333}\large\text{Sharper than Most}&\LARGE\color{#D61F06}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger \\ \color{#333333}\large\text{Seriously Serrated}&\LARGE\color{#69047E}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger \\ \color{#333333}\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }&\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{#333333}{†††††} \end{aligned}$

Code

\begin{eqnarray}\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }&\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{black} \large\text{Small, but Pointy}&\LARGE\color{pink}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{black}\large\text{Sharper than Most}&\LARGE\color{red}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger \ \color{black}\large\text{Seriously Serrated}&\LARGE\color{purple}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger \ \color{black}\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }&\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{black}{†††††} \end{eqnarray}

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Percy Jackson

@Páll Márton

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

$\begin{eqnarray}\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }&\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{black} \large\text{Small, but Pointy}&\LARGE\color{pink}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{black}\large\text{Sharper than Most}&\LARGE\color{red}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger \ \color{black}\large\text{Seriously Serrated}&\LARGE\color{purple}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger \ \color{black}\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }&\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{black}{†††††} \end{eqnarray}$

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – ...?

Márton, you know that you have to add the \ ( ... \ ), right?

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr – Yeah. What is the problem?

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – You made it into a quote @Páll Márton

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – And I think you have to make everything one line, without any enters

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr – Marton's code is correct Hamza, but he put it in quote, so its not working, but i don't know why (?_?)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – I just copy/pasted it. Here is the original code from the comment:

$ \begin{aligned}\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }&\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{#333333} \large\text{Small, but Pointy}&\LARGE\color{#E81990}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{#333333}\large\text{Sharper than Most}&\LARGE\color{#D61F06}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger \ \color{#333333}\large\text{Seriously Serrated}&\LARGE\color{#69047E}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger \ \color{#333333}\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }&\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{#333333}{†††††} \end{aligned}$

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Ok, I identified the problems @Páll Márton, two things...

Instead of \aligned, replace it with \eqnarray

Before every \color{black} in my code, there should be a /, make it a //

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – @Percy Jackson, what if Márton was using the unformatted $\LaTeX$ code trick that he made on us at that time. I must say that we fell for it. We were damn confused LOL

Frisk Dreemurr - 7 months, 1 week ago

$\begin{aligned}\large\text{Tis' but a Scratch }&\LARGE\color{lightpink}\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{#333333} \large\text{Small, but Pointy}&\LARGE\color{#E81990}\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger \dagger \ \color{#333333}\large\text{Sharper than Most}&\LARGE\color{#D61F06}\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey}\dagger \dagger \ \color{#333333}\large\text{Seriously Serrated}&\LARGE\color{#69047E}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\color{lightgrey} \dagger \ \color{#333333}\large\text{Honed to a Razor-Edge }&\LARGE\color{gold}\colorbox{#333333}{†††††} \end{aligned}$

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

yay i activated the copy now for the army...

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

how do you change the highlighting

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Páll Márton - This??? Why repost it under Hamza's comment???

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

We got notifications if she post something there, so why should she mention us?

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Dunno, she is very impatient maybe :) @Páll Márton

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Huh, do you get notifications even if I don't mention you?

I never knew that

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Frisk Dreemurr – We get notifications, even if you comment here, leave replying, :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Go to Latex club, for experimentation of codes, this is for dagger doubts :) @Páll Márton, @Frisk Dreemurr

I @mentioned you in Latex club

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

$\ \large \text{A Small Tickle}\LARGE\color{lightgrey}\dagger\dagger\dagger \dagger \dagger$

NSCS 747 - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

$\large\text{A Toothpick} \Large \color{grey}{†} \color{lightgrey}{††††}$

A Former Brilliant Member - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

$\ \large \text{WHAAAA?}\color{#333333}\dagger \LARGE\color{lightgrey}\dagger$

NSCS 747 - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sharper Than Most - †††

I Love Brilliant - 9 months, 1 week ago

its five daggers

NSCS 747 - 9 months, 1 week ago

@Percy Jackson $\Large \text{Diamond Carved - }\Huge\color{cyan}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$ $\Large \text{Pepsis Wasp - }\Huge\color{#ffff00}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$ $\Large\text{Jackhammering - }\Huge\color{#707070}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$ $\Large \text{Bullet Ant - }\Huge\color{#624F41}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$ $\Large \text{Activated Lightsaber - }\Huge\color{#ff0000}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$ $\Large \text{Impaling Your Mind - }\Huge\color{#ff7070}\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger\dagger$

Lâm Lê - 8 months ago

$\ \large \text{Wooden Sword}\LARGE\color{#624F41}\dagger$

$\ \large \text{Stone Sword}\LARGE\color{grey}\dagger$

$\ \large \text{Iron Sword}\LARGE\color{lightgrey}\dagger$

$\ \large \text{Gold Sword}\LARGE\color{#CEBB00}\dagger$

$\ \large \text{Diamond Sword}\LARGE\color{cyan}\dagger$

NSCS 747 - 8 months ago

Diamond is cyan and swap the stone and iron colours around.

Lâm Lê - 8 months ago

thx

NSCS 747 - 8 months ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$

Dagger-ed Problems

Comments

That's all the daggers, I'll update when a 0-dagger problem comes LOL

†\dagger†

⇓\Downarrow⇓ LaTeX\LaTeXLATE​XCode ⇓\Downarrow⇓

Code

This is a copy/pasted dagger - †\colorbox{#3D99F6}{\color{#FFFFFF}This is a copy/pasted dagger - †}This is a copy/pasted dagger - †​

Code

$\dagger$

$\Downarrow$ $\LaTeX$ Code $\Downarrow$

$\colorbox{#3D99F6}{\color{#FFFFFF}This is a copy/pasted dagger - †}$