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How long is the longest prime diagonal?
Stanislaw Ulam once observed that if the counting numbers are <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral arranged in a spiral>, t...

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Create a patchwork matrix
This function will assemble a large matrix out of a number of smaller ones m1, m2, etc., according to a pattern P. If P is 3x5,...

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Weighted average
Given two lists of numbers, determine the weighted average. Example [1 2 3] and [10 15 20] should result in 33.333...

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surrounded matrix
With a given matrix A (size m x n) create a matrix B (size m+2 x n+2) so that the matrix A is surrounded by ones: A = [1 2 ...

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Nilpotent matrix
Check if matrix A is <http://mathworks.com/ nilpotent>.

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Sum the 'edge' values of a matrix
Sum the 'edge' values of an input matrix (the values along the perimeter). Example [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] Output = ...

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Pascal's Triangle
Given an integer n >= 0, generate the length n+1 row vector representing the n-th row of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_t...

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Pascal's Matrix
Given an integer n ≥ 0, generate the ( _n_+1) × ( _n_+1) lower triangular <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_matrix P...

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Pascal's pyramid
In Pascal's triangle each number is the sum of the two nearest numbers in the line above: 1 1 1 ...

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Find and replace the zero array in a matrix
Find the zero array in the matrix and replace it with average of surrounding (adjacent) arrays. Example: A = 3 ...

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Back to basics - array operations
Without performing actual arithmetic operations on arrays, return feasibility of operation as true or false. True if given opera...

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Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius
Calculate the Celsius temperature C given the Fahrenheit temperature F. Examples: Input F = 90 Output C is 32.22 I...

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Three...is a magic number.
Yes it is... It's a magic number... To help you get rid of that earworm, here's a new Cody problem. You are given a squar...

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Given an input string, generate a variable name out of it
Given an input string, generate a variable name out of it in easy to read format by a programmer. If the input string contai...

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Cumulative difference
Given an array, return the cumulative difference. Example a = [ 1 3 5 7 ] cumdiff = [ 1 2 1 -2 ]

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Target sorting
Sort the given list of numbers |a| according to how far away each element is from the target value |t|. The result should return...

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Flip the main diagonal of a matrix
Given a n x n matrix, M, flip its main diagonal. Example: >> M=magic(5); >> flipDiagonal(M) 9 24 1 ...

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Convert a vector of Integers into a matrix of binaries
Convert a vector of positive integers into a matrix containing their binary representation. Each column of the output contains t...

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Number of 1s in a binary string
Find the number of 1s in the given binary string. Example. If the input string is '1100101', the output is 4. If the input stri...

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Find the sum of the elements in the "second" diagonal
Find the sum of the elements in the diagonal that starts at the top-right corner and ends at the bottom-left corner.

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Create a vector whose elements depend on the previous element
The idea is to create a vector A whose elements depend on the previous element : *A(i+1) = 2*A(i)+1* *2 Inputs*: - A : The...

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Pizza!
Given a circular pizza with radius _z_ and thickness _a_, return the pizza's volume. [ _z_ is first input argument.] Non-scor...

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Mysterious digits operation (easy)
What is this digit operation? 0 -> 0 1 -> 9 121 -> 9 44 -> 6 15 -> 5 1243 -> 7 ...

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Is my wife right?
Regardless of input, output the string 'yes'.

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Sum of diagonals elements of a matrix
Given a matrix, return the sum of all the elements across the diagonals. E.g. A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9;...

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Scoring for oriented dominoes
Given a list of ordered pairs, and the order they should be placed in a line, find the sum of the absolute values of the differe...

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Multiplication
Multiply two numbers in a different manner. The numbers are given to you as vectors x and y. Example x = [ 1 2 0 1 ] ...

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Implement simple rotation cypher
If given a letter from the set: [abc...xyz] and a shift, implement a shift cypher. Example: 'abc' with a shi...

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Rainbow matrix
Create a "rainbow matrix" as described in the following examples Input = 3 Output = [ 1 2 3 2 3 2 ...

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Generate a random matrix A of (1,-1)
Input n: is an positive integer which serves as the dimension of the matrix A; Output: A=(Aij),where each entry Aij is either...

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