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Make a Palindrome Number
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Trimming Spaces
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Subset Sum
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Quote Doubler
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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
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Counting Money
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Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row.
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Balanced number
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Find the palindrome
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De-dupe
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Implement a ROT13 cipher
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DNA N-Gram Distribution
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Longest Divisor Run
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Remove the polynomials that have positive real elements of their roots.
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Indexed Probability Table
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Counting in Finnish
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Connect Four Win Checker
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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
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Knight's Tour Checker
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