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Next Tribonacci Number
The "Tribonacci" sequence is an extension of the idea of the Fibonacci sequence: That is, each new term is the sum of the thr...
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Laddergrams
MATLAB is good at math, of course, but it can also let you have some fun with words. Go to the Gaming > Word Games...
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Cookies & Code
Seasonal greetings of the Greater Solstice Metropolitan Area! As I write this, the solstitial sun sets on the shortest day...
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Crepuscular Tidings
As the days get shorter and drearier here in New England, I get hungry for sunlight. This makes me somewhat obsessed with...
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Cody Meets Cricket: Who’s Your Bunny?
Any cricketers out there? If you like cricket and coding in MATLAB (and who doesn't?), then allow me to direct your...
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2022 Mini Hack Content Analysis
Today, once again, I am delighted to introduce guest blogger Dave Bulkin. You may remember that Dave blogged in this space...
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Cricket - Most Frequent Bowler-Batter Wicket Combinations
Given a table representing all wickets taken in a particular set of matches, return a table of the bowler-batter pairs that occu...
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Split Even Number Into Two Primes
Given an even whole number n (> 2), return a 2-element vector of primes, p, such that p(1) + p(2) = n. Fun note: technically it...
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Extract the Acrostic Message
An acrostic cipher is a way of embedding one message within another by taking the first (or last) word of each line. Given a str...
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Boustrophedon
Given a vector v and a positive integer n, return an m-by-n matrix containing the elements of v row-wise, alternating left-to-ri...
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Generate Tribonacci Sequence
The "Tribonacci" sequence is an extension of the idea of the Fibonacci sequence: That is, each new term is the sum of the thr...
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Where the Four Corners Am I?
The "Four Corners" region of the US is where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico all meet - the only place where four states...
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Generate Pascal's Triangle Matrix
Pascal's triangle is an arrangement of numbers where each value is the sum of the values adjacent to it in the previous row: ...
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Jack O'Lantern
If visualized correctly, the data contained in the matrix A will look like a jack-o'-lantern. Create a function that will visu...
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Plotting Practice
Plot cos(x) vs x as shown in the figure below. Include the appropriate title, x-label, and y-label. Note, it is case sensitive. ...
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Calculating Student Grades
The matrix grades contains raw grades for 7 students who took your course. Each row represents a different student. The first 7 ...
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Matrix Quadrants
Write a function that takes N as the input, and outputs a matrix whose upper-left (NxN) quadrant contains all ones, the lower-ri...
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Find the minimum of the column-maximums of a matrix
Given a matrix A, find the maximum value of each column, then return the smallest of those maximum values (ie return the minimum...
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Find Closest Constant
Given a number x, return the value that is closest to x from this list of constants: 0, 1, , e, , (also known as ). For exampl...
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Contests, Contests!
Here in New England, autumn is in full swing. The maple leaves are shifting into their best yellows and reds. On MATLAB...
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Create an arrow matrix
An arrow matrix is a square matrix that contains ones on the diagonal, the last column, and last row. ...
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New Features: How Do You Find the Good Stuff?
If I give you something but you never get the news, did I really give it to you? This happens all the time with MATLAB...
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Find a Pythagorean triple
Given four different positive numbers, a, b, c and d, provided in increasing order: a < b < c < d, find if any three of them com...
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Home Made Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Listen in as Yuki Kamatani interviews a man who built his own MRI! Hi, I'm Yuki Kamatani, an application engineer in our...
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Given a matrix, swap the 2nd & 3rd columns
If a = [1 2 3 4; 1 2 3 4; 1 2 3 4; 1 2 3 4]; then the result is ans = 1 3 2 4 1 3 2...
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Publishing to WordPress
This blog post began its life as a Live Script in MATLAB. I could have started typing into WordPress, but then I wouldn't...
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Find the complement of a number in binary
Input x is a decimal number and output y is the complement of binary representation of x. For example, x = 10 has the binary ...
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Happy Valentines Day!
I found this lovely algorithmic heart in the comments of an old Walking Randomly post. Research software superstar Mike...
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