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Number of 1s in the Binary Representation of a Number
*Description* Return the number of 1s in the (unsigned integer) binary representation of a number. This function should be ab...

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Are you in or are you out?
Given vertices specified by the vectors xv and yv, and a single point specified by the numbers X and Y, return "true" if the poi...

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Circumscribed circles
Given the lengths of the 3 sides of a triangle, output the radius of the circumscribed circle. Example: [3 4 5] -> 2.5

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Similar Triangles - find the height of the tree
Given the height, h1, of a power pole, shorter than a tree, a given distance, x2 away, please find h2, height of the tree. Pleas...

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Clockwise or Counterclockwise
Given a list of 2-d points defining the vertices of a polygon, determine whether these points are sorted clockwise. The input...

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Clock Hand Angle 1
Given a time in HH:MM:SS, find the smallest angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hand

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Covering area
As an extension of the problem <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/416-polygon-area>, find the area, bounded b...

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What is the distance from point P(x,y) to the line Ax + By + C = 0?
Given a point, P(x,y), find the distance from this point to a linear line. INPUTS: x, y, A, B, C OUTPUTS: d, the distance ...

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Is the Point in a Circle?
Check whether a point or multiple points is/are in a circle centered at point (x0, y0) with radius r. Points = [x, y]; c...

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Angle between two vectors
You have two vectors , determine the angle between these two vectors For example: u = [0 0 1]; v = [1 0 0]; The a...

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Angle between Two Vectors
The dot product relationship, a dot b = | a | | b | cos(theta), can be used to determine the acute angle between vector a and ve...

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Spherical radius given four points
Determine the radius of a sphere provided four non-coplanar points on the surface of the sphere. pts = [x1 y1 z1; x...

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Volume of a Parallelepiped
Calculate the volume of a Parallelepiped given the vectors for three edges that meet at one vertex. A cube is a special case ...

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Are all the three given point in the same line?
In this problem the input is the coordinate of the three points in a XY plane? P1(X1,Y1) P2(X2,Y2) P3(X3,Y3) how can...

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Find third Side of a right triangle given hypotenuse and a side. No * - or other functions allowed
Find the remaining side of a triangle given the hypotenuse and a side. However, the normal functions and symbols are not allowe...

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Television Screen Dimensions
Given a width to height ratio of a TV screen given as _w_ and _h_ as well as the diagonal length of the television _l_, return t...

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Under the sea: Snell's law & total internal reflection
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell's_law> When a light travels from one medium to another medium, depending on the refracti...

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Euclidean distance from a point to a polynomial
A not uncommon problem in the area of computational geometry is to find the closest point to a straight line from a given point,...

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Find the sum of all the numbers of the input vector
Find the sum of all the numbers of the input vector x. Examples: Input x = [1 2 3 5] Output y is 11 Input x ...

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Regular polygon bounded by and bounding a circle
As the number of sides (or vertices) of a regular polygon goes to infinity, its perimeter and area go to the perimeter and area ...

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Angle bisectors
Given 2 direction vectors, calculate the *_two_ (2) normalized angle bisectors* (which are perpendicular between them). Input...

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Find the Area of a Polygon
Consider 2-D geometry and assume that the points are given in form of rows of a matrix. Find the area of polygon enclosed by the...

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Is It a Snake?
Given an m-by-n matrix, return true if the elements of the matrix are a connected "snake" shape from 1 to m*n. Otherwise return ...

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Pancakes for everyone!
Accordingly to the <http://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/42460-the-cake-is-a-lie problem 42460>. All the children...

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The cake is a lie...
You're hosting a birthday party with a large number of screaming children. Fortunately, you have a gigantic sheet cake in front...

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Radiation Heat Transfer — View Factors (5)
View factors (aka configuration factors) are utilized in some radiation heat transfer models to estimate heat transfer rates bet...

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Radiation Heat Transfer — View Factors (4)
View factors (aka configuration factors) are utilized in some radiation heat transfer models to estimate heat transfer rates bet...

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Fun with a compass
Each night for the past week, you have been having the same nightmare: You find yourself back in your junior high school geometr...

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solid of revolution
Given an real polynomial P and two real numbers a,b with 0<=a<=b. Calculate the volume of the solid of revolution made by rotati...

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Find the sines of an isosceles triangle when given its area and height
Find the sines of an isosceles triangle when given its area and height. For example, when A=12 and h=4, the result is [0.8 0.8 ...

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