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Return the first and last character of a string
Return the first and last character of a string, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the string, the functi...

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Count photos
Given n people, everyone must have pictures taken with everyone, each photo includes only two persons, please count the total nu...

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Which quadrant?
Given a complex number, output quadrant 'I' 'II' 'III' or 'IV' | II | I | ...

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Distance walked 3D
suppose you go from x-y-z coordinates [3,4,2] to [0,0,2] to [0,1,2] to [1,1,2], to [1,1,20] then you walked 25 units of distance...

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Multiply a column by a row
* Given a column vector C and and a row vector R. * Output a matrix M. * Every column of M equals to C multiplied by correspon...

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Arrange Vector in descending order
If x=[0,3,4,2,1] then y=[4,3,2,1,0]

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Tell me the slope
Tell me the slope, given a vector with horizontal run first and vertical rise next. Example input: x = [10 2];

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N-Queens Checker
Picture a chessboard populated with a number of queens (i.e. pieces that can move like a queen in chess). The board is a matrix,...

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Lose control
Remove all characters that are below space in ASCII value.

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Replace May with April
For instance, if the input is input_str = 'The flowers may bloom in April'; then the output is output_str = 'The flo...

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Read a Soroban Abacus
*Description* The Soroban is the name of the modern Japanese abacus. Information on reading a Soroban can be found <http://we...

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Knight's Tour Checker
Given a matrix a, determine whether or not a legal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight's_tour knight's tour> is present. The kn...

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Given a window, how many subsets of a vector sum positive
Given a vector: [1 0 -1 3 2 -3 1] and a window of 2, A sliding window would find: 1 + 0 = 1 0 - 1 = -1 ...

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Who knows the last digit of pi?
There is only one man who knows the last digit of pi, who is that man? Give the name of that man, who, by popular believe, can ...

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Maximum running product for a string of numbers
Given a string s representing a list of numbers, find the five consecutive numbers that multiply to form the largest number. Spe...

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Sorting
Assume that x is an n-by-2 matrix. The aim is to return the first column of x, but sorted according to the second column. Exa...

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A stroll on the beach: finding a route round a connected region
You are standing on the beach of an island, which you must explore by walking all the way round its coast. Each step is in one o...

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Find state names that end with the letter A
Given a list of US states, remove all the states that end with the letter A. Example: Input s1 = 'Alabama Montana Nebras...

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2 b | ~ 2 b
Given a string input, output true if there are 2 b's in it, false if otherwise Examples: 'Macbeth' -> false 'Publius Cor...

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Back to basics 7 - Equal NaNs
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Given 2 input variables, output true if they are equal, false ot...

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Back to basics 9 - Indexed References
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Given an input matrix and row and column, output the index of th...

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Back to basics 12 - Input Arguments
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return a value equal to the number of input arguments to the fun...

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Spot the outlier
All points except for one lie on a line. Which one is the outlier? Example: You are given a list of x-y pairs in a column ...

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7 segment LED display
Given a whole number, output how many segments would be lit up to display it on a 7 segment LED display (http://en.wikipedia.org...

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Sophie Germain prime
In number theory, a prime number p is a *Sophie Germain prime* if 2p + 1 is also prime. For example, 23 is a Sophie Germain prim...

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sum of non-primes
The sum of the non-primes below 10 is 1+4+6+8+9+10=38 Find the sum of all the non-primes below the input, N.

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Output any real number that is neither positive nor negative
Output any real number that is neither positive nor negative

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Who is the smartest MATLAB programmer?
Who is the smartest MATLAB programmer? Examples: Input x = 'Is it Obama?' Output = 'Me!' Input x = 'Who ?' Ou...

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Circumscribed circles
Given the lengths of the 3 sides of a triangle, output the radius of the circumscribed circle. Example: [3 4 5] -> 2.5

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Duplicate each element of a vector.
for an n-dimensional vector x, the function should return another vector 2n-dimension which each element is repeated twice. Ex...

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