Problem 2873. feeling VERY lucky?

Created by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon

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Just like Matthew's problem 2793 and Edward's problem 2872 (guess the number that Cody is thinking) but now you must solve it in your first try.
Good luck!
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despite appearances this problem does not require any hacking at all (nor even manipulation of random streams). Look at the testsuite for details and only submit your solution if you are confident that it will pass (you do have only one chance)
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The solution to this problem has been posted over 10,000 times in Cody

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 24 Jan 2015

Hello Alfonso. It's a pleasure to see you again. An idea why my Solution 548586 doesn't pass the test in Problem 2793 ?

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 25 Jan 2015

Hi Jean-Marie, thanks, it is a pleasure to be back! In my opinion that does not work simply because the Matlab session where your solution is being evaluated is not a "clean" (just started) matlab session. Rather the testsuite will be evaluated by one of several Matlab servers available at any given timepoint, and while the variable space is cleared, and the directory structure is deleted before each evaluation there are many other properties (like the state of random streams, functions in memory, etc.) which are not reinitialized and will be influenced by the particular server's history of evaluated solutions (e.g. this is what allows hacks like freepass to work)

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 26 Jan 2015

edit: Sylvain solution here shows that I was wrong above, and the random seeds *are* reinitialized before running the testsuite, only that not to their 'default' state but rather likely by using rng('shuffle') (I have to look through Cody code to see if I can confirm this but that would be consistent with the observed behavior)

Augusto Mazzei on 25 Jan 2023

Definitely happy to pass this with some good MATLAB basis and almost 0 hacking skills. Nice nice nice problem!

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