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Knight's Tour Checker
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Find the two most distant points
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Duplicates
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Maximum running product for a string of numbers
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Scrabble Scores
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Summing Digits within Text
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Alphabetize by last name
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Pattern matching
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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
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Indexed Probability Table
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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
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Prime factor digits
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Remove the polynomials that have positive real elements of their roots.
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QWERTY coordinates
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Mandelbrot Numbers
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Find common elements in matrix rows
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Word Counting and Indexing
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Given two arrays, find the maximum overlap
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Return a list sorted by number of occurrences
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Encode Roman Numerals
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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
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It dseon't mettar waht oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are.
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Generate a random matrix A of (1,-1)
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Generating random matrix with given probability mass function
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Given n, create n random numbers such that their standard deviation is also n.
Given n, create n random numbers such that their standard deviation is also n.

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