Problem 147. Too mean-spirited

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Kirk on 29 Jul 2014

cheese

the cyclist on 30 Jul 2014

I added another test to the suite that invalidated this cheesy solution.

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Rodrigo Portugal on 29 Mar 2013

Why is eval forbidden while regexp isn't? Don't they have the same 'nature'?

Michael Cappello on 24 Oct 2013

It seems that the vast majority of leading solutions are size 10 or 11. If a problem has a single output, then having a return argument of 'ans' makes the size smaller. For instance:

function ans=findmean(x,y)
mean([x y])

is smaller in size than

function m=findmean(x,y)
m = mean([x y])

This seems silly, and makes me think that there is some 'trick' to these size 10&11 solutions that has little to do with good coding practices. Of course, it could just be sour grapes on my part because I can't get my sizes even close to that small.

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