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POCode Golf: Beehive
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copied!<h2>The challenge</h2> <p>The shortest code by character count that will generate a beehive from user input.</p> <p>A beehive is defined a a grid of hexagons in a size inputted by the user as two positive numbers greater than zero (no need to validate input). The first number (<code>W</code>) represents the width of the beehive - or - how many hexagons are on each row. The second number (<code>H</code>) represents the height of the beehive - or - how many hexagons are on each column.</p> <p>A Single hexagon is made from three ASCII characters: <code>_</code>, <code>/</code> and <code>\</code>, and three lines:</p> <pre><code> __ / \ \__/ </code></pre> <p>Hexagons complete each other: the first column of the beehive will be 'low', and the second will be high - alternating and repeating in the same pattern forming W hexagons. This will be repeated H times to form a total of WxH hexagons.</p> <h2>Test cases:</h2> <pre><code>Input: 1 1 Output: __ / \ \__/ </code></pre> <hr> <pre><code>Input: 4 2 Output: __ __ __/ \__/ \ / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ </code></pre> <hr> <pre><code>Input: 2 5 Output: __ __/ \ / \__/ \__/ \ / \__/ \__/ \ / \__/ \__/ \ / \__/ \__/ \ / \__/ \__/ </code></pre> <hr> <pre><code>Input: 11 3 Output: __ __ __ __ __ __/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__ / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ </code></pre> <hr> <p>Code count includes input/output (i.e full program).</p>

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