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Going Way Back with MATLAB Central
You’re part of a long tradition. Communities don’t blossom in one night. MATLAB’s rich community has been growing...
10 years ago
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Happy Birthday MATLAB Central!
MATLAB Central launched 15 years ago, in the fall of 2001, and it’s been growing fast ever since. I’ve had a front row seat...
10 years ago
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Prettier Cody Code!
We did some web updates last night, and Cody emerged with a fresh coat of paint. As a result it’s more mobile-friendly. The...
10 years ago
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Getting By With a Little Help
Let’s say you’ve written some code that you think might worth adding to the File Exchange. But then you hesitate. Your...
10 years ago
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Numerical Analyst John D’Errico Takes a Stroll Through Cody
I think of the wise and generous John D’Errico as a computational philanthropist. After a long career as a numerical analyst...
10 years ago
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Flag Math on Bastille Day
Let me start with a graphical riddle. In what sense is the following equivalence true? To learn the answer, read on! I...
10 years ago
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File Exchange Alert: Your Help Is Needed!
Collaboration on software can be a lot of fun, but it can also be hard to motivate. For instance, you may be working on a...
10 years ago
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Searching for MATLAB Examples with Google
I want to show you a trick for finding entertaining MATLAB code. Of course I will always recommend that you start looking...
10 years ago
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The Great Ans Hack
Cody is a game that rewards you for calculating the same answer with less code. The very first Cody problem you...
10 years ago
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Soccer Passing Networks
I saw another fun MATLAB-related tweet go by, this time about soccer rather than doughnuts. The Euro 2016 tournament is...
10 years ago
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National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
National Doughnut Day was June 3rd. On that day, Sean Breckling was nice enough to tweet this to the universe of MATLAB...
10 years ago
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A New Name, A New Focus
This is the blog that used to be called "MATLAB Spoken Here." When we gave it that name, we were thinking it would be a good...
10 years ago
Problem
Frobenius McNugget Factorization
Mr. Frobenius McNugget is a peculiar man. As you might expect, he likes to eat Chicken McNuggets. But his love of number the...
10 years ago | 16 | 43 solvers
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Convert integer to base26 using letters
Write a function that converts a decimal integer to base26 using the letters of the english alphabet, i.e. 0->'a', 1->'b', 2->'c...
10 years ago
Problem
Breaking Bad Tiles (Spelling with Element Symbols)
Given a word, how you would spell it with element symbols from the periodic table? For instance, if given the string "Paper", yo...
10 years ago | 5 | 31 solvers
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Number of occurrences of letter in a text
Given an input text either as a string or as a cell array of strings, return a (1 x 26) matrix containing the number of occurren...
10 years ago
Problem
Placing Beads Neatly in a Box
You are given a string of n black and white beads. Your job is to pack them neatly into a square box. "Neatly" in this case mean...
10 years ago | 8 | 18 solvers
Problem
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 ...
10 years ago | 4 | 57 solvers
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Replace secondary diagonal elements of a square array
Replace all the secondary diagonal elements of the square array A with the number n Example: A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
10 years ago
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Community Improvements: MATLAB Answers
The Community Team has launched a new landing page for MATLAB Answers. MATLAB Answers is a popular community resource for...
11 years ago
Problem
Find the Final State of an Abelian Sandpile
Let us define an <http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/the-amazing-autotuning-sandpile Abelian sand pile> as a matrix that is only...
11 years ago | 4 | 76 solvers
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Location of the Mary Maersk
The Mary Maersk is one of the largest container ships in the world. The location information shown here comes from https://www.v...
11 years ago
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MATLAB Conference Australia & New Zealand 2015
This week’s blogger is Bradley Horton. Bradley is an engineer at MathWorks Australia who works with customers in the...
11 years ago
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Printing Variables to HTML Tables in Published Code
This file lets you display variables as HTML tables in your published MATLAB files.
11 years ago | 3490 downloads |
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This is a palindrome and so am I
A palindrome is a sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward, for instance 'a man a plan a canal panama'...
11 years ago
Question
How to import Excel data from a spreadsheet with cross-file references?
I have an Excel spreadsheet, call it Spreadsheet A, that I want to read into MATLAB. The Import Tool works well for this. Exc...
11 years ago | 2 answers | 0
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Fibonacci Decomposition
Every positive integer has a unique decomposition into nonconsecutive Fibonacci numbers f1+f2+ ... Given a positive integer n, r...
11 years ago | 16 | 953 solvers
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Triangle sequence
A sequence of triangles is constructed in the following way: 1) the first triangle is Pythagoras' 3-4-5 triangle 2) the s...
11 years ago
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Face Coder Product Preview
We don’t ordinarily talk about features under development, but today’s post comes from one of our internal product teams...
11 years ago