Problem 42705. Is It a Snake?

Created by Ned Gulley

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Peng Liu on 26 Jan 2016

Similar to Solution Solution 814072, this solution would fail a test with a = [2 1 1 1].

Solution 814072

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 26 Jan 2016

this solution would fail a test of the form a=[2 1 1 1];

Ned Gulley on 27 Jan 2016

I added [2 1 1 1] as a test.

Solution 804605

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Brian Hannan on 18 Jan 2016

This solution passes the test suite when I run it on my machine. Does anyone know why it would fail when I submit it to Cody? The online test suite shows only red X marks and does not provide any feedback.

Jan Orwat on 19 Jan 2016

"padarray" comes from Image Processing Toolbox

Brian Hannan on 20 Jan 2016

Thanks.

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