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Equivalent DnD dice roll for a rational probability
I got thoroughly nerd-sniped by this xkcd, leading me to wonder if you can use MATLAB to figure out the dice roll for any given ...

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Cricket - Is It LBW?
LBW has an unfair reputation as complicated. But if you've watched a third umpire referral, you'll know that it's just a logical...

3 years ago | 1 | 16 solvers

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Cricket - Report the Result (Part II: Test Matches)
Given two scalar strings representing the scores for a test match, return a string reporting the result in the appropriate form:...

3 years ago | 1 | 14 solvers

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Cricket - You Miss, I Hit (Rank Bowlers by Proportion of Bowled and LBW Wickets)
Which bowlers threaten your stumps the most? Given a table of all wickets taken during some particular set of matches and two th...

3 years ago | 3 | 17 solvers

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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...

3 years ago | 1 | 22 solvers

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Cricket - Report the Result (Part I: Limited Overs)
Given two scalar strings representing the scores for a limited-overs match, return a string reporting the result in the form "Te...

3 years ago | 1 | 28 solvers

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Cricket - Peak Batting Average
Given a vector s of strings representing a batter's individual innings scores (in chronological order), return the highest batti...

3 years ago | 1 | 30 solvers

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Cricket - Represent Average in "Dulkars" and "Ses"
Sachin Tendulkar's Test average was 53.78. So if Tendulkar = 53.78, one dulkar = 5.378. Similarly, Roger Twose's average was 25....

3 years ago | 1 | 30 solvers

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Cricket - Career Bowling Statistics
Given a vector s of strings representing a bowler's individual innings records, return their career statistics as a 3-element (n...

3 years ago | 1 | 30 solvers

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Cricket - Career Batting Statistics
Given a vector s of strings representing a batter's individual innings scores, return their career statistics as a 4-element (nu...

3 years ago | 1 | 37 solvers

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Cricket - How Much More to Beat Bradman?
Sir Don Bradman famously needed only 4 runs in his final innings to retire with an average of 100. Out for a duck, he ended inst...

3 years ago | 1 | 63 solvers

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Cricket - Average Partnership Contribution
The (infamous) Duckworth-Lewis method uses statistical models of how much each wicket partnership is worth to an innings (on ave...

3 years ago | 2 | 39 solvers

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Cricket - Sort Batters by Distance Run
Given a string vector of batters' names, a vector of the total number of runs they scored, a vector of the number of 4s they sco...

3 years ago | 2 | 83 solvers

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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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Triangle Coordinates
Given a natural number n, return two -element vectors, x and y, containing the coordinates of a triangular arrangement of points...

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Angle Between Analog Clock Hands
Given a datetime variable t, return the angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hands of an analog clock at the time repr...

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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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Create block matrix of integers (j+k-1) - Part II
Given m, n, p, and q, create an m-by-n matrix made up of submatrices, each sized p-by-q (if possible - the last row and column o...

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Create block matrix of integers (j+k-1) - Part I
Given m, n, p, and q, create a matrix of m-by-n blocks (submatrices), each sized p-by-q. The elements of the (j,k)th block all h...

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Dartboard Average II
A dartboard arranges the numbers 1 to 20 such that each value is typically flanked by quite different values - for example, 20 i...

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Dartboard Average I
A dartboard arranges the numbers 1 to 20 such that each value is typically flanked by quite different values - for example, 20 i...

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Possible Rugby Scores
Given a natural number s (> 4), representing a rugby team's score, return an n-by-3 matrix representing all n possible combinati...

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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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Determine if Input is Oddish or Evenish (Odd/Even Sum of Digits)
Given a positive integer n, determine whether n is "oddish" or "evenish" - that is, whether the sum of the digits of n is odd or...

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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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Angle Between Analog Clock Hands
Given a datetime variable t, return the angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hands of an analog clock at the time repr...

3 years ago | 4 | 115 solvers

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Determine if Input is Oddish or Evenish (Odd/Even Sum of Digits)
Given a positive integer n, determine whether n is "oddish" or "evenish" - that is, whether the sum of the digits of n is odd or...

3 years ago | 9 | 329 solvers

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Create block matrix of integers (j+k-1) - Part II
Given m, n, p, and q, create an m-by-n matrix made up of submatrices, each sized p-by-q (if possible - the last row and column o...

3 years ago | 2 | 100 solvers

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Create block matrix of integers (j+k-1) - Part I
Given m, n, p, and q, create a matrix of m-by-n blocks (submatrices), each sized p-by-q. The elements of the (j,k)th block all h...

3 years ago | 4 | 122 solvers

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Dartboard Average II
A dartboard arranges the numbers 1 to 20 such that each value is typically flanked by quite different values - for example, 20 i...

3 years ago | 1 | 113 solvers