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Determine the minimum number of swaps to sort a vector
Cody Problem 1401 asks us to sort a vector with the bubble sort algorithm and count the number of swaps needed. For example, to ...

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Compute flow in a partially full pipe
Problem statement When does the maximum flow occur in a pipe? Intuition might suggest that it occurs when the pipe is flowing f...

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Route a hydrograph through a river section with the Muskingum method
Problem statement Write a function that routes a hydrograph through a river section using the Muskingum method. The input to t...

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Solve an ODE: draining tank
Write a function to compute the time to drain a cylindrical tank of diameter from an initial level to a level . The outflow oc...

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Compute infiltration and runoff under constant precipitation with the Green-Ampt method
Problem statement Write a function that computes infiltration, depression storage, and runoff using the Green-Ampt method. It s...

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Inscribe a circle in a triangle with a side of length equal to the circle’s circumference
A circle of radius is inscribed in a triangle with a side that has a length equal to the circle’s circumference. The center of ...

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Determine whether a hydrograph is a unit hydrograph
A hydrograph describes the runoff response of a catchment or watershed to rainfall. It shows the runoff rate (or flow or discha...

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Compute the average precipitation for a watershed using the Thiessen polygon method
Several methods are available for estimating the average precipitation for a watershed from a few observations at rain gauges. T...

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Compute frequency factors for the normal distribution
In frequency analysis in hydrology, the streamflow corresponding to a specified exceedance probability (or return period ) can...

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Determine flows of given probability using empirical frequency analysis
Write a function that takes as input observations of peak streamflow and exceedance probabilities expressed as percentages an...

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Find patterns in subprime Fibonacci sequences
Lots of Cody problems involve Fibonacci and Collatz sequences. Fibonacci sequences start with two numbers, and later terms are c...

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List unitary divisors of a number
A unitary divisor of a number divides and satisfies gcd(,) = 1. For example, 9 is a unitary divisor of 18 because gcd(9,2) = ...

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List numbers that are not in the Fibonacci sequence
In the list of 4797 Cody problems, 53 deal with or refer to the Fibonacci sequence.* What about the other numbers? Write a funct...

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Determine whether one vector is a subset of another
While bumbling through a pair of problems in the Number Theory group, I wrote code to determine whether a vector is a subset of ...

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Find the length of stream affected by a spill
When a contaminant is spilled into a stream, one might want to know how much of the stream is affected—e.g., the length over whi...

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Count the ways to make Scorigami
Regarding the sport known as American football, some people are such rabid fans that they can tell you the statistics of every p...

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Solve an ODE: concentrations predicted by the cells-in-series model
One approach for predicting mixing and transport of contaminants in a river is the cells-in-series model. The model divides a ri...

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Spell musical triads
Chords form the basis of harmony in music. The most basic chords are triads, or groups of three notes. They are specified by thr...

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Solve an ODE: precocious pair’s porcine pursuit
In our previous encounters with Matilda and Labrun, the scintillating siblings collected candy wrappers, amused others with card...

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Solve an ODE: first-order linear equation
In the fall semester of [redacted], my professor for a course on ordinary differential equations said, “There are two groups of ...

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Solve an ODE: nonlinear third-order equation
Write a function to solve the ordinary differential equation on the domain with , , and either or . The input variable ord ...

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Check whether a Wordle guess is consistent with previous feedback
The game Wordle resembles the classic game Mastermind. Players try to guess a five-letter word, and after each guess they are to...

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Determine whether a player solved a Cody problem
Write a function to determine whether a player has solved the specified Cody problems. The problem numbers are specified as a ve...

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Collect a set of candy wrappers
This past Halloween, the siblings Matilda and Labrun amused (and sometimes confused) their many neighbors with their costumes in...

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Sum of Elements Above the Main Diagonal of a Square Matrix
Given a square matrix as input, write a function that returns the sum of all elements above the main diagonal. If the input mat...

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Multiply binary numbers
Write a function to multiply two binary numbers input as strings. For example, input values of ‘1011’ and ‘101’ should give ’110...

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Pick the die most likely to win
After discussing Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock in The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh writes that in...

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Compute a sum involving the totient over divisors of a number
Write a function to compute the following sum: where is the totient function. The sum is computed over the divisors of (inc...

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Solve an ODE: equation C
Write a function to solve the following ordinary differential equation: with and . The parameter is a constant. The functi...

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Eliminate redundant numbers in text
Occasionally someone might write text such as Briefly explain one (1) common problem that can result from the constant use of ...

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