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Solving a quadratic equation
Given a, b and c, Return the solution of the following quadratic equation: a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0.

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Frobenius Norm
Write your own version of Frobenius Norm without using the 'norm' function.

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Ohm's Law
Well its Ohm's law... So V = IR! I will give two of the three values, such as V and I or I and R and you have to return th...

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Convert hex color specification to MATLAB RGB
Here's something that comes up all the time if you deal with web pages. Given a <http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.as...

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Calculate the area of a triangle between three points
Calculate the area of a triangle between three points: P1(X1,Y1) P2(X2,Y2) P3(X3,Y3) these three points are the vert...

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Function composition - harder
Write a function that accepts an arbitrary number of function handles f_1, f_2, ..., f_n and returns the composition h. That is,...

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Matrix of almost all zeros, except for main diagonal
Write a program to input an integer n and build a n-by-n matrix with the numbers 1,2,...,n on the main diagonal and zeros elsewh...

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Moving average (variable kernel length)
Find the moving average in a vector. The kernel length is a variable. For example x = 1:10 kernel_length = 2 would r...

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Is My Wife Wrong?
Answer the question. (see also <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/149-is-my-wife-right Problem 149: Is my ...

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calculate RMS voltage
given peak to peak voltage, calculate rms voltage

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Cell Counting: How Many Draws?
You are given a cell array containing information about a number of soccer games. Each cell contains one of the following: * ...

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Proper Factors
Generate the proper factors of input integer _x_ and return them in ascending order. For more information on proper factors, ref...

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Minefield Sonar
*Background* In mine-hunting games (e.g. Microsoft Minesweeper), the user is provided with a covered grid that, upon a left c...

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wait for me
wait exactly x seconds please, need not be more than 2 seconds but must be accurate within say 50 milliseconds, your function mu...

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Text processing - Help Johnny write a letter home from camp
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newRMS
find root mean square of a signal x in less time than the test code and accurate to six places.

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Figurate number triangle
Check whether the input matrix is a figurate number triangle: <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FigurateNumberTriangle.html>

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Simple date to serial no. conversion
Convert a date string to a serial date number. For example if you take x='19-May-2001' then the result is 730990 x...

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Community Problem 500!
In honor of this being the 500th Community problem, see if you can create a function that has a Cody size of 500. It can do any...

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Wheat on a chessboard pt 1
If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that one grain were placed on the first square and each successi...

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Matlab Basics II - Velocity of a particle
A particle is moving in space, such that it's velocity is given by: <<http://s30.postimg.org/5rf1xtvj5/cody1.png>> write a...

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Matrix rotation as per given angle
Given a user defined matrix and angle of rotation, rotate the elements of output matrix as clockwise or anti-clockwise. Angle wi...

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Subtract two positive numbers
Given a and b as a string, return b-a without using string to number conversion functions. a and b must to be a same size and b ...

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Test
Answer the question and the correct answer write in vector. Only one answer is correct. 1a Yes 1b No 1c No 1d No ...

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Let's see how peculiar we can get
The task is to multiply two numbers. But do it in the most peculiar possible way.

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Add more zeros
Find code that adds one 0 to each sequence of 0 in a string (composed with only 0 or 1). For example: '1010' -> '100100' ...

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Einsteinium-253 decay
Radioactive Einsteinium-253 has a half-life of 1,768,608 seconds. Given 1000mg of Einsteinium-253 at t=0 days, how much is lef...

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Multiples of a Number in a Given Range
Given an integer factor _f_ and a range defined by _xlow_ and _xhigh_ inclusive, return a vector of the multiples of _f_ that fa...

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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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Create a random logical vector of N elements of which M are true.
Your task for tomorrow is to create a random binary (logical) vector of N elements of which M are true. For example: ran...

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