Problem 582. Function composition - harder

Created by David Hruska

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Daniel Pereira on 7 Feb 2017

"compose" is a built-in Matlab function.
Please, change the function name in the test suite, since no new solution is allowed.

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Daniel Pereira on 2 Feb 2017

This problema keeps returning an error which, to my understanding, does not make sense, since my function has only 5 lines.

Error using compose (line 85) First argument must be a string array, character vector, or cell array of character vectors. Error in TestPoint1 (line 4) h = compose(f1,f2,f3);

David Hruska on 3 Mar 2017

Apologies for the trouble! I have renamed to the function to "composeFcn" to avoid clashing with the MATLAB "compose" function. Give it a try now.

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bainhome on 11 Apr 2015

it took me almost half an hour to get how this programm work.impressive!

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