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Which doors are open?
There are n doors in an alley. Initially they are all shut. You have been tasked to go down the alley n times, and open/shut the...

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Make a Palindrome Number
Some numbers like 323 are palindromes. Other numbers like 124 are not. But look what happens when we add that number to a revers...

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Find relatively common elements in matrix rows
You want to find all elements that exist in greater than 50% of the rows in the matrix. For example, given A = 1 2 3 5 ...

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Nearest Numbers
Given a row vector of numbers, find the indices of the two nearest numbers. Examples: [index1 index2] = nearestNumbers([2 5 3...

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All Humans are Created Equal - Pareto Equality
One way or the other two sets of identical types can come out ahead of the other by idea of Pareto equality. Pareto equality b...

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Blood test?
Assuming: the genetic makeup (genotype) of a child is coded as a pair with two components, combining half genotype of one parent...

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"Look and say" sequence
What's the next number in this sequence? * [0] * [1 0] * [1 1 1 0] * [3 1 1 0] * [1 3 2 1 1 0] This a variant on the w...

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Half?
If you toss an even number (x) of coins, what is the probability (y) of 50% head and 50% tail?

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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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Back to basics 15 - Benchmark
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return an array of the benchmark values for MATLAB.

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Create a cell array out of a struct
Create a cell array out of a (single) struct with the fieldname in the first column and the value in the second column: in: ...

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Back to basics 20 - singleton dimensions
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Remove the singleton dimensions from the input variable (e.g. if...

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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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Geometric series
Find the sum, given the first term t1, the common ratio r, and number of terms n. Examples If input t1=1, r=1, n=7 the...

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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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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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No Twins?
Write a function that accepts as input a vector and returns the same vector, but retaining only the first occurrence of an eleme...

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Scrabble Scores
Given a word, determine its score in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble Scrabble>. The input string will always be provide...

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Remove DC
Input x is the sampled signal vector, may have both AC and DC components. Output y should not contain any DC component. Examp...

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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
A Collatz sequence is the sequence where, for a given number n, the next number in the sequence is either n/2 if the number is e...

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

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Interpolator
You have a two vectors, a and b. They are monotonic and the same length. Given a value, va, where va is between a(1) and a(end...

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Clean the List of Names
Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So...

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

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Back to basics 14 - Keywords
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return a cell array of all MATLAB keywords

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Back to basics 8 - Matrix Diagonals
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Given an input vector of numbers, output a square array with the...

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Sum of diagonal of a square matrix
If x = [1 2 4; 3 4 5; 5 6 7] then y should be the sum of the diagonals of the matrix y = 1 + 4 + 7 = 12

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Find common elements in matrix rows
Given a matrix, find all elements that exist in every row. For example, given A = 1 2 3 5 9 2 5 9 3 2 5 9 ...

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Back to basics 10 - Max Float
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return the largest positive floating-point number MATLAB can han...

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