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Probability of Choosing a Red Ball
Given two jars of red and blue balls, find the probability of choosing a red ball from Jar 1 after going through the steps. ...

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Throwing Dice - Will You Be Eaten By The Dragon?
You and a dragon have agreed to let dice rolls determine whether it eats you or not. The dragon will roll a single die, of x ...

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Probabilities - More brains than luck
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Geometrical meaning of determinant
Given two vectors x,y, in 2D or three vectors x,y,z in 3D space, compute the area (or volume) of the parallelogram they define. ...

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Find the diagonal of the square of side L
You are given a square of side length L, find D the length of its diagonal.

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Area of polygon
Given the vertices in vectors X,Y, return the area of the polygon they define.

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Create a Cell array of month-end date strings within a date range
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Is this date a palindrome?emordnilap a etad siht sI
Take a MATLAB date number as input, and return true if the date is a palindrome, false if the date is not a palindrome. A date ...

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Find number of days
The input is two date in string format (dd-mm-yyyy) find out the number of days between these two dates. Example: input: ...

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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...

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calculate the day of the year from a date string.
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Find my birthday
Given a birth date x, find my age when my birth day will fall on the same day as I was born. So if I was born on Monday, what a...

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Find Month & day for given day number of a year
Find Month & day for given day number of a year (day number is any number ranging from 1 to 366)

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Calculate days until Christmas
Provided with inputs year, month, day e.g. 2019,11,12, calculate the number of days until the next Christmas day, i.e. the next ...

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microseconds passed today
Calculate the amount of microseconds passed for a given date string. Return the value, rounded to the nearest integer, as a stri...

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The End of the World
given a date -- represent it in the Maya long count system. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar> <https://maya.nm...

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Lost days
Given two dates in a particular format, calculate the difference between them.

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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 ...

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Friday the 13th
According to superstition, lots of unpleasant stuff happens on Friday the 13th, so you might like to find the next occurence of ...

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Count the days
Count the occurrence of a particular day (e.g. Monday) in a given year.

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How long until the weekend?
Write a function a that takes a date vector as an input and returns the number of hours until the weekend begins. The beginning...

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Days until next NewYear ball drop
Given a date string in the form 'yyyy-mm-dd' or 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss', calculate the number of *days* until the dropping of the ...

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Convert a structure into a string
Convert the contents of each fields into a string. Example with an input structure s with 2 fields : s.age = '33' s....

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Tax Season ! How much is my salary?
Tax Season! I was employed for a period from x until y in a year and I get pay check of amount z on every alternate Friday of th...

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Find supported functions
Given a function name, return true if that function is supported by the toolboxes that are installed with MATLAB on this machine...

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Word Counting and Indexing
You are given a list of strings, each being a list of words divided by spaces. Break the strings into words, then return a maste...

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Clean the List of Names
Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So...

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Simple Caesar Cypher - shift encrypt a message given an index number
A Caesar cypher is a simple shift encryption method. Your goal is to create a function that allows a user to input a string and ...

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Join Strings with Multiple Different Delimiters
The idea is to form the string S by interleaving the elements of a cell array of strings DELIMITER and another cell array of st...

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Eliminate Polysyllabics: Long live short words!
Given a string s1, return s2 in which all the words with more than one syllable have been removed. To make things simple, we ...

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