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Duplicates
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Scrabble Scores
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Summing Digits within Text
Given a string with text and digits, add all the numbers together. Examples: Input str = '4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a...

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Tic Tac Toe FTW
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Pattern matching
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The Goldbach Conjecture
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Find state names that end with the letter A
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Find the two-word state names
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Alphabetize by last name
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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
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Indexed Probability Table
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Get the area codes from a list of phone numbers
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Find relatively common elements in matrix rows
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Prime factor digits
Consider the following number system. Calculate the prime factorization for each number n, then represent the prime factors in a...

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Find state names that start with the letter N
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Word Counting and Indexing
You are given a list of strings, each being a list of words divided by spaces. Break the strings into words, then return a maste...

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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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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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Remove any row in which a NaN appears
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Most nonzero elements in row
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Finding Perfect Squares
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Swap the first and last columns
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Find all elements less than 0 or greater than 10 and replace them with NaN
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Find the numeric mean of the prime numbers in a matrix.
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Fibonacci sequence
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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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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
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Make a checkerboard matrix
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