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Replace secondary diagonal elements of a square array
Replace all the secondary diagonal elements of the square array A with the number n Example: A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 ...

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Find the Final State of an Abelian Sandpile
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Maximum of each diagonal
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Minimum of each diagonal
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Divide elements by sum of elements
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Find an optimal placement of coolers on a grid
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Characterize fluid flow in a pipe as to laminar or turbulent
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Find an overlap in the cleaning schedule of two tank reactors
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Create a matrix map of increasing safety levels
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Pancake sorting - minimum flips.
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Pancake sorting
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Find the same and successive values in a vector
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Assess the scatter of wind turbines in a field
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Count the number of folds needed to pack a large sheet
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Calculate the sphericity of a Raschig ring
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Convert a temperature reading from Celsius to an unknown scale
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How to reverse spdiags?
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How close to a hole
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Pandiagonal Prime Magic Square Verification
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We love vectorized solutions. Problem 1 : remove the row average.
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Conic equation
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Longest Sequence of NaNs
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Combine Data With Gaps
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Split array into pieces according to corresponding array
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Find the distance between runs
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Find Elements in Range
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Find indices of diagonal elements
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Neither minima nor maxima
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Elements with highest local average
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Sum My Indices
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