Round #737
10 May 2026, 15:18· csharp· Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct· r13-clean-hints
- Complexity
- band 0
- ZP / UO / OBS
- 3 / 2 / 2
- Journey weight
- 475
- Lightshift ΔL
- —
Prompt
Write a LINQ Select that maps a list of strings to their lengths.
Zero-point index (what the engine surfaced)
ZPI-ZPI-0011 | 2026-05-10T15:18:18Z
Write a LINQ Select that maps a list of strings to their lengths.
ZERO POINT — 3 entries (structural invariants)
● hsl(7.18, 100%, 50%) class [feature]
● hsl(0.00, 100%, 50%) public [feature]
● hsl(84.10, 100%, 50%) namespace [feature]
UNOBSERVED — 2 entries (implied truths)
○ hsl(340.51, 100%, 22%) IEnumerable of T [feature]
○ hsl(15.38, 100%, 22%) var [feature]
OBSERVED — 2 entries (explicit in request)
◉ hsl(66.67, 100%, 15%) select [feature]
◉ hsl(324.10, 100%, 15%) List of T [feature]
COMPLEXITY │ 7 entries │ spread: 325° │ band: LOW
Baseline response (no ZPI)
```csharp
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
// Define a list of strings
List<string> strings = new List<string> { "apple", "banana", "cherry" };
// Use LINQ Select to map the list of strings to their lengths
var lengths = strings.Select(s => s.Length);
// Print the lengths
foreach (var length in lengths)
{
Console.WriteLine(length);
}
}
}
```
In this code:
- We define a list of strings `strings`.
- We use the `Select` method to create a new sequence that contains the lengths of the strings in the original list. The lambda expression `s => s.Length` specifies that we want to select the `Length` property of each string `s`.
- We print the lengths to the console.
When you run this code, it will output:
```
5
6
6
```
Which are the lengths of the strings "apple", "banana", and "cherry", respectively.
Enhanced response (with ZPI)
```csharp
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
var strings = new List<string> { "apple", "banana", "cherry" };
var lengths = strings.Select(s => s.Length).ToList();
foreach (var length in lengths)
{
Console.WriteLine(length);
}
}
}
```
This C# code uses LINQ's `Select` method to map a list of strings to their lengths. The `Select` method applies a transformation to each element in the input sequence, in this case, the `Length` property of each string. The result is a new sequence containing the lengths of the input strings. The `ToList` method is used to materialize the result as a list.
In the `Main` method, we create a list of strings, apply the `Select` method to get the lengths, and then print each length to the console.
Grader chain
Each grader reads the same baseline + enhanced pair and casts an independent verdict. Disagreement is the framework's own signal — not noise to be averaged away.
V1samba/Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
BetterV4qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct
BetterV5openrouter/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507
SameV7qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct
SameV8openai/gpt-4.1
SameV9anthropic/claude-opus-4-7
SameV12openai/gpt-4o
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