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Spiraling out of control....
Imagine a square with corners at the origin and at (1,1). An interesting spiral can be created by tracing the path of a moving ...

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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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Distance walked 3D
suppose you go from x-y-z coordinates [3,4,2] to [0,0,2] to [0,1,2] to [1,1,2], to [1,1,20] then you walked 25 units of distance...

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Wind outward from the center ...
Create an n-by-n matrix with elements ranging from 1 to n^2 in a rectangular spiral pattern. Example if n = 5 : 21 ...

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Converting Decimal to Binary
Given a decimal number that may include a fractional component, convert it into binary representation. The numbers you are given...

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Spot the rectangle
This problem is related to the <http://bit-player.org/2009/the-17x17-challenge 17x17 challenge>. Given a matrix filled with ones...

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What are the odds?
Two numbers, A and B are drawn randomly and uniformly on [-R,R]. What is the probability that A*B < A+B. Your function should ...

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Selecting books on MATLAB for experts and beginners (blindfolded)
* Imagine you have been blindfolded and asked to pick up any two books randomly from the table. * There are n books suitable f...

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

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Column norms of a matrix
Given a matrix M, return a vector y such that for each k y(k)=norm(M(:,k)) (y(k) is the Euclidean norm of the k-th col...

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Count photos
Given n people, everyone must have pictures taken with everyone, each photo includes only two persons, please count the total nu...

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letter yes yes & letter no no
Split a string into two strings, first string has all alphabetic letters, next string has all the rest, keep the order please, o...

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Make an awesome ramp for a tiny motorcycle stuntman
Okay, given a vector, say v=[1 3 6 9 11], turn it into a matrix 'ramp' like so: m=[1 3 6 9 11; 3 6 9 11 0; 6 9 ...

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Solve the set of simultaneous linear equations
Given this pair of simultaneous linear equations: 2x + 3y = 23 3x + 4y = 32 Find the solution set (x,y)

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Arrange Vector in descending order
If x=[0,3,4,2,1] then y=[4,3,2,1,0]

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Would Homer Like It?
Given a matrix of ones and zeros, you must determine if there are any doughnuts present (would Homer Simpson like it?). A doughn...

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resistor ladder
* You have a bunch (an odd number N) of identical resistors (each R ohms), a good battery (V volts), and a high impedance voltme...

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Parcel Routing
Given a matrix that represent the distance along highways between major cities numbered 1 to _N_, provide the path and shortest ...

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Surface Fit z(x,y)
Given three vectors x,y,z. Find four coefficients c = [cxx cxy cyy c00], such that z = cxx*x.^2+cxy*x.*y+cyy*y.^2+c00. For e...

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Rosenbrock's Banana Function and its derivatives
Write a function to return the value of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenbrock_function Rosenbrock's two-dimensional banana fu...

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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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Return the Fibonacci Sequence
Write a code which returns the Fibonacci Sequence such that the largest value in the sequence is less than the input integer N. ...

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What is the distance from point P(x,y) to the line Ax + By + C = 0?
Given a point, P(x,y), find the distance from this point to a linear line. INPUTS: x, y, A, B, C OUTPUTS: d, the distance ...

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Reverse the vector
Reverse the vector elements. Example: Input x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] Output y = [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]

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Is this group simply connected?
Given connectivity information about a graph, your job is to figure out if the graph is fully connected. You are given a list of...

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function on a moving window
Create a function that applies an operation (such as @sum, @mean, @std, @norm etc) to a moving window of the data. First exam...

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cos for boss?
a programmer had too much coffee and his boss needs cos(alpha+beta) correctly, especially when alpha or beta or the coffee are c...

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Einsteinium-253 decay
Radioactive Einsteinium-253 has a half-life of 1,768,608 seconds. Given 1000mg of Einsteinium-253 at t=0 days, how much is lef...

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Multiply to the limit?
If y = 4*x*x/pi/pi then what is the ultimate limiting result of (1+y/1/1)(1+y/3/3)(1+y/5/5)(1+y/7/7)... ... within 1000*eps?

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System of equations
Find a solution to a system of equations represented by a |n| by |n+1| matrix. For instance, [ 2 0 4; => 2*x = 4 ...

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