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Introducing Community Profile Pages
This week, guest-blogger David Wey welcomes the new community profile pages. David is a Senior Developer for MathWorks...

11 years ago

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Robot Game-Playing in MATLAB – Part 2
Last week we showed how to use a Monte Carlo approach to write a program capable of playing Tic Tac Toe. But that was just...

11 years ago

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pay it forward
Return any number (integer between 0 and 65535) You will pass this problem if you are the *second* person to choose that nu...

11 years ago

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Robot Game-Playing in MATLAB
A story about just-in-time expertise. Sometimes the best learning is no learning. COMPUTERS, CHESS, AND GO I read an...

11 years ago

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Simulate one complete step in the Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biham%E2%80%93Middleton%E2%80%93Levine_traffic_model Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model> is ...

11 years ago | 7 | 35 solvers

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MATLAB Onramp
In the last post, Wendy Fullam told us about MATLAB Examples, where you could see working examples and pick apart the code...

11 years ago

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Change Vector Value
Change the element of the vector with respect to the element of the direction vector If the element of the direction vecto...

11 years ago

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Introducing MATLAB Examples
This week, guest-blogger Wendy Fullam is trumpeting the arrival of a new Support page feature. Wendy is the Technical...

11 years ago

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How Many Months Until It's Today Again?
Given a particular date, calculate how many months must pass before that same day of the month occurs on the same day of the wee...

11 years ago

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How Many Months Until It's Today Again?
Given a particular date, calculate how many months must pass before that same day of the month occurs on the same day of the wee...

11 years ago | 4 | 131 solvers

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MATLAB and Git
This week we hear from Toshi Takeuchi about how to take advantage of MATLAB’s recent improvements to Git integration. Toshi...

11 years ago

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Convert to Binary Coded Decimal
Convert from decimal representation to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal Binary Code Decimal> (or BCD) represen...

11 years ago

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Acquire Data from Android Device Sensors with MATLAB Mobile
With the new MATLAB® Support Package for Android™ Sensors, you can now use MATLAB Mobile™ to acquire data from the sensors...

11 years ago

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Welcome Mike!
I am very excited to welcome a new blogger to MATLAB Central: Mike Garrity is going to be writing about graphics on the...

11 years ago

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Expo Conversations – Part 2
This is a continuation of the last post (see Expo Conversations – Part 1), in which we learned how the MathWorks UK office...

11 years ago

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Determine the Result of a Move in Reversi
Note: This is closely related to <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/2538-find-the-next-legal-move-in-reversi ...

11 years ago | 2 | 21 solvers

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Expo Conversations – Part 1
Plenty of people talk about building cool things, but how many of us really do it? Sure, you can do amazing things these...

11 years ago

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Find the Next Legal Move in Reversi
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi Reversi>, also known as Othello, is a game in which reversible white/black chips are place...

11 years ago | 2 | 23 solvers

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Blogs Improvements: Search with Categories and Print a Post
Our latest update has two features that should be of interest to blog readers: Searching with Categories: Blog authors can...

11 years ago

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A Chat with Chebfun’s Nick Trefethen
Today we interview Nick Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford. Photo by Sara Kerens Nick is...

11 years ago

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Weather Prediction – How Far Can You Go?
This summer my mother-in-law is renting a house on a lake in New Hampshire. Looking at the calendar, my wife said: "The...

11 years ago

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Sort the vector with the given index
Given x = [1 2 4 8 17] and t = [1 3 2 5 4] then y = [1 4 2 17 8].

12 years ago

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Enhancing Tables with Gareth
Today we have a guest post by Gareth Thomas. Gareth is Academic Marketing Manager for the Education Business in the...

12 years ago

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Vector Magnitude Calculator
'a' is a vector that starts at the origin and ends at (x, y). Find ||a||. Hint: It is as simple as "ABC".

12 years ago

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Tic Tac Toe Solver
Create a function that checks n number of tic tac toe boards housed in a 3x3xn matrix where the x's are represented as 1's (and ...

12 years ago

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Solve the Sudoku Row
*Description* A simple yet tedious task occurs near the end of most Sudoku-solving algorithms, computerized or manual. The ta...

12 years ago

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row-th maximum row elements
Input a is a square matrix of size n*n. Output vector v is of size 1*n. The ith element of output v is the ith largest element o...

12 years ago

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Plotly Plots MATLAB
Here’s a quick post to tell you about a nifty service called Plotly. The basic idea is that you can create nice-looking...

12 years ago

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Calendar Matrix
Return a calendar matrix for the given values of month and year. Assume that Sunday is the first day of the week. The resulting ...

12 years ago | 3 | 161 solvers

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What’s that in the sky? Build a MATLAB Planetarium
I look up at the sky just after sunset and I see an especially bright star. It's probably a planet. But which one?... read...

12 years ago