Problem 60784. Indicate how the Prague astronomical clock strikes the hours

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The astronomical clock in Prague has a bell that rings 1, 2, 3, or 4 times. The number of strokes follows the sequence 1234321234321…, and for the nth hour, the total number of strokes is n. So, during a day, the patterns are 1, 2, 3, 4, 32, 123, 43, 2123, 432, 1234, 32123, 43212, 34321, 23432, 123432, 1234321, 2343212, 3432123, 4321234, 32123432, 123432123, 43212343, 2123432123, and 432123432.
Write a function to produce the pattern for a given number of hours. Assume that the rules hold for hours beyond 24. 
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Christian Schröder on 6 Jan 2025

Apparently my solution "was marked as potential spam and was not posted", and will now be reviewed by administrators.

I wonder what triggered that - or whether Cody shouldn't have a "we're pretty sure this isn't a spammer" flag for established users, to be set by admins at their discretion or perhaps awarded based on problems solved, points earned or so.

Dyuman Joshi on 6 Jan 2025

Even I am not sure why your solution was flagged as spam.

I will inform and ask the Cody team about this behaviour.

I don't understand why singular answers are flagged as spam. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ChrisR on 6 Jan 2025

>> I don't understand why singular answers are flagged as spam.

Hey, you gotta nip these things in the bud. If people submit one solution, they might escalate to two. Do we really want to live in a world like that? :-)

It is amusing to think of a zero-tolerance Cody world in which thousands of problems sit on the server uncontaminated by solutions.

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