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Construct a string from letters and counts
Given two input arrays like this: [5,3,1] ['a','b','c'] Output a string that contains each letter the specified num...

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Sort numbers by outside digits
Sort the array so that they are sorted as if their value was a 5 digit number made from the first three and last two digits of t...

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Sum the entries of each column of a matrix which satisfy a logical condition.
Given a numeric matrix A and a logical array L of the same size as A, return a row vector S containing the columnwise sums of th...

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Create a function handle that reverses the input arguments of another function handle
Given a function that takes two input arguments and returns one output, create another function handle that performs the same op...

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Decoding : Find the value
'u' in the function below is of type char or string and 'v' is of type int or double. function y = your_fcn_name( u, v) ...

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Function composition
Write a function that accepts two function handles f and g and returns the composition h. That is, h = (f o g)(x) = f(g(x)) ...

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Number of Circles in a Number
Given a number, return the number of closed 'circles' in the base 10 numerical representation. Note: the number 4 has no circ...

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Count from 0 to N^M in base N.
Return an array of numbers which (effectively) count from 0 to N^M-1 in base N. The result should be returned in a matrix, with ...

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Prime factor digits
Consider the following number system. Calculate the prime factorization for each number n, then represent the prime factors in a...

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Kaprekar Steps
6174 is the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174_%28number%29 Kaprekar constant>. All natural numbers less than 10,000 (except som...

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Test if a Number is a Palindrome without using any String Operations
*Description* Given an integer _X_, determine if it is a palindrome number. That is, _X_ is equal to the _X_ with the digits ...

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Reverse the Words (not letters) of a String
*Description* Change the words of a string such that the words appear in reverse order. You may assume that the string is a n...

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Back to basics 16 - byte order
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Switch the byte order of the input (i.e. if little-endian -> big...

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Getting the row and column location from a matrix
This is a basic MATLAB operation. It is for instructional purposes. --- You may already know how to get <http://www.mathwo...

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Back to basics 18 - justification
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Given a string with extra spaces in front and/or in back, return...

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Determine the number of odd integers in a vector
Determine the number of unique odd integers in a vector. Examples: Input x = [2 5 8 3 7 1]; Output y = 4; Inp...

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Who is the smartest MATLAB programmer?
Who is the smartest MATLAB programmer? Examples: Input x = 'Is it Obama?' Output = 'Me!' Input x = 'Who ?' Ou...

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Alphabetize by last name
Given a list of names in a cell array, sort the list by the last name. So if list = {'Barney Google','Snuffy Smith','Dagwood ...

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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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Implement a ROT13 cipher
Replace each character in string s1 with the character that is shifted 13 positions from it (wrap back to the beginning if neces...

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Double Deal
*Description* Given an input vector _v_, return the first element as the first output, the second element as the second outpu...

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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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Counting in Finnish
Sort a vector of single digit whole numbers alphabetically by their name, in Finnish. See the Wikipedia page for <http://en.wik...

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Spherical radius given four points
Determine the radius of a sphere provided four non-coplanar points on the surface of the sphere. pts = [x1 y1 z1; x...

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Differential equations I
Given a function handle |f| an initial condition |y0| and a final time |tf|, solve numerically the differential equation dy...

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McCabe Complexity
The Challenge is to return the McCabe complexity for various functions. One way to determine the McCabe Complexity is to use ...

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Four quadrant inverse tangent function.
Create a function that returns an array P the same size as X and Y containing the element-by-element, four-quadrant inverse tang...

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Become the leader
The goal of this problem is the same as the goal of the rest of them: *become the leader*. Actually, you can only solve this ...

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Generate a string like abbcccddddeeeee
This is the string version of Problem 1035. <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/1035-generate-a-vector-like-1-...

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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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