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Minimum Distance between two N-sided Polygons
This Challenge is to determine the minimum distance between two non-overlapping polygons. The input is a cell array of two vecto...

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Minimum Distance Point to Segment
This Challenge is to determine the minimum distance from a 2-D line segment defined by two points to a point. The point is (p...

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Number of lattice points within a circle
Find the number of points (x,y) in square lattice with x^2 + y^2 =< n. This is related to Jame's <http://www.mathworks.com/matla...

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Given the name from the legend, return the handle
Write a function that will return the handle to the desired object. The input for this function will be a string which represent...

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A (wrong) place for everything, and everything in its (wrong) place
You have an equal number of cups and balls, each labelled from one to N. You randomly place one ball in each cup. Determine th...

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Young's modulus
Given a value of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_modulus Young's modulus> (Y) expressed on MegaPascal, convert it to the uni...

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Altitude of locations on the earth
Find the altitude of a location on the earth, given latitude and longitude coordinates, above mean sea level. Input__________...

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RPN Calculator for simple arithmetic expressions
Reverse-Polish-Notation (RPN) is a machine friendly form of calculating expressions. Example, to evaluate, (1+2)*4 + 5 - 3 you e...

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Give me Hamming on five, hold the mayo
A Hamming Number is a positive number that has no prime factor greater than 5. Given a number X, determine how many Hamming num...

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Creation of 2D Sinc Surface
This Challenge is to efficiently create the Sombrero function of various sizes, resolutions, and frequencies. <<https://sites...

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Evaluating continued fractions
Given row vector c=[c0 c1 c2 c3 ...] evaluate the continued fraction x=c0+1/(c1+1/(c2+1/(c3+...))) If c is a ...

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Balanced Ternary Numbers: Easy as |, |-, |o
This problem concerns the so-called <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary balanced ternary> system for representing num...

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Unique dice configurations
Given a number of dice N and the number of sides on each die S, write a MATLAB function that will output how many unique permuta...

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Last Duplicate
Given an array of integers, find the last duplicate element — that is, the element whose second occurrence appears latest in the...

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First Duplicate
Given an array of integers, return the first duplicate — i.e., the element that appears more than once and whose second appearan...

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'X'avier
Given a square matrix A of size n, write a function to create a new matrix B where only the elements on the main diagonal and th...

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Symmetric Pair
Given an (n, 2) matrix, remove any symmetric pairs from the matrix. Keep the first occurrence. (2, 3) and (3, 2) are considere...

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Unique rows
A matrix is given as the input. Remove any duplicate rows from the matrix. keep the first occurrence.

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Pairs with Given Sum
Given an array of integers and a target sum, return all unique pairs whose sum is equal to the target. The output should be a ma...

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Greater than before
Given an array of integers, write a function that returns elements that are greater than the one before them. For instance, ...

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Calculate the probability that at least two people in a group share the same birthday.
Calculate the probability that at least two people in a group share the same birthday. Given an integer input n, return to 0.015...

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Coin change combinations.
Using only pennies (1), nickels (5), dimes (10), quarters (25), half dollars (50), and dollars (100), how many different combina...

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Two-output anonymous function?
Return a function handle that when applied to an input, it produces two outputs: the first is the same as the input, and the sec...

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FizzBuzz
<http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuzzTest FizzBuzz Test> The "Fizz-Buzz test" is an interview question designed to help filter out...

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Handle to an array of functions
Given a cell array of functions that operate on scalars, it is required to return a function handle to process a vector of value...

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Coin Tossing: Probability of Same Heads for N tosses
A pair of physicists toss a coin n times each. What is the probability that they tossed the same number of heads? Input: N % n...

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Get ranks of values in a vector
For a given vector, say [6 3 8 2], return the ranks (ascending) of observations, i.e. [3 2 4 1]. Do not worry about tied ranks. ...

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Create a recurrence matrix for a vector of data
In <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis conversation analysis>, it's often useful to track the contributions fro...

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Eliminate Polysyllabics: Long live short words!
Given a string s1, return s2 in which all the words with more than one syllable have been removed. To make things simple, we ...

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Create array of all Distances between two Sets of Points : No Neural Network Toolbox
This Challenge is a subsection of <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/1110-usc-fall-2012-acm-martian-pranks Ma...

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