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Implement a ROT13 cipher
Replace each character in string s1 with the character that is shifted 13 positions from it (wrap back to the beginning if neces...

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DNA N-Gram Distribution
Given a string s and a number n, find the most frequently occurring n-gram in the string, where the n-grams can begin at any poi...

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The Goldbach Conjecture
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach's_conjecture Goldbach conjecture> asserts that every even integer greater than 2 can ...

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Find relatively common elements in matrix rows
You want to find all elements that exist in greater than 50% of the rows in the matrix. For example, given A = 1 2 3 5 ...

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Find the two most distant points
Given a collection of points, return the indices of the rows that contain the two points most distant from one another. The inpu...

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Alphabetize by last name
Given a list of names in a cell array, sort the list by the last name. So if list = {'Barney Google','Snuffy Smith','Dagwood ...

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Pattern matching
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Connect Four Win Checker
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four Connect Four> is a game where you try to get four pieces in a row. For this problem, ...

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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
Given an input cell array of strings s, pick out the second column and turn it into a row vector of data. Missing data will be i...

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Given two arrays, find the maximum overlap
Given two (integer) arrays s1 and s2, create a new array s3 which is as short as possible and contains both arrays. #1 s1 = [...

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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
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Return the 3n+1 sequence for n
A Collatz sequence is the sequence where, for a given number n, the next number in the sequence is either n/2 if the number is e...

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What is the next step in Conway's Life?
Given a matrix A that represents the state of Conway's game of Life at one instant (time t=n), return the matrix B that represen...

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Find the two-word state names
Given a list of states, remove all the states that have two-word names. If s1 = 'Alabama Montana North Carolina Vermont N...

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Tic Tac Toe FTW
Given a tic tac toe board: * 1 represents X * 0 represents empty. * -1 represents O It is X's move. If there is an imme...

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Find common elements in matrix rows
Given a matrix, find all elements that exist in every row. For example, given A = 1 2 3 5 9 2 5 9 3 2 5 9 ...

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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
This problem description is lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance. The Levenshtein distance between two...

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Return a list sorted by number of occurrences
Given a vector x, return a vector y of the unique values in x sorted by the number of occurrences in x. Ties are resolved by a ...

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It dseon't mettar waht oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are.
An internet meme from 2003 (read more here) asserted that readers are relatively insensitive to letter order in words, so long a...

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Determine if input is odd
Given the input n, return true if n is odd or false if n is even.

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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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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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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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