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High Five!
Write a function that takes a number x and returns y = 'High Five' if x is not equal to five. Return y = 'Denied' if the number ...

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No Fives Permitted
Create a function that gives users an custom error message if the matrix A contains a five. The error message should say "No Fiv...

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Don't Include a Five
Given a vector A, return vector B with all 5s replaced with 0s.

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Don't Sum a Five
Create a function that sums the first and last element of a muti-element vector unless the value of one of the elements is 5. Do...

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Exponents
Set a varible y = to x^2

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Sum of Elements of a matrix
It sums the elemets of a 2x2 matrix

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Solve for factorial of X
It gives you the number x, and set y equal to x factorial. Ex. There are 52 cards in a deck, each specific order of all 52 car...

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Leaderboard Tracker
S is an m×n matrix of scores, where S(i,j) is the score of player j in match i. cumScore is an m×1 vector containing the cumula...

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Convert matrix to 3D array of triangular matrices
Given a 2D numeric array x in which each column represents the vectorized form of an upper triangular matrix, return a 3D array ...

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Find Solutions to Edge-Matching Puzzles
I was intrigued by some edge-matching puzzles I came across when visiting my parents over Thanksgiving. "An edge-matching puzzle...

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Covering a 4-pointed star polygon by a circle sector
Given the area, A, of a 4-pointed star polygon formed by the rectangle, with dimensions L×2L, and four triangles, with height h ...

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Covering a four-pointed star polygon by circles
Given the area, A, of a star polygon formed by the rectangle, with dimensions L×2L, and four triangles, with height h from their...

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How tall will my cactus be?
My Barbed Wire Cactus is a desert cactus that relies on just the right amount of rainfall to stay healthy. Given a 1×12 vector...

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Covering a four-pointed star polygon by rectangles
Given the area, A, of a star polygon formed by the rectangle, with dimensions L×2L, and four triangles, with height h from their...

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Convert Hard Drive marketing sizes to actual data sizes
Hard drive sizes are typically marketed using the decimal meaning of prefixes, whereas RAM uses binary meanings. For example: ...

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Sleeping Queens 1
My youngest daughter received a card game named Sleeping Queens for Christmas this year, and has been playing it nearly non-stop...

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Determine when snow started
R.P. Agnew posed the following problem: It starts snowing in the morning and continues steadily throughout the day. A snowplow t...

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The twelve days of Christmas
Traditionally there are twelve days of Christmas to celebrate ("Twelvetide"), typically starting with Christmas Day (25 December...

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Greed is good - Simple partition P[n].
Find a simple partition P[n]. E.g. P[10] = 4 + 3 + 2 + 1. There are many solutions, compute just one set. Don't repeat numbers...

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Maya long Count
Given a Mayan date, calculate the number of days after the end of the last Great Cycle. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_c...

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Rescaling vector
Rescale the entries of a vector x so that it spams [a,b]. The new values should be linearly stretched into the new range. _Ex...

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Equidistant numbers containing certain value in an interval
Given a lower and upper bound of an interval, distance between numbers, and one particular number from that interval, create an ...

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Pancakes for everyone!
Accordingly to the <http://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/42460-the-cake-is-a-lie problem 42460>. All the children...

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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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[Thermodynamics] Polynomial fitting of heat capacity data

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D'Hondt Method of Proportional-Representation
The D'Hondt method is a proportional representational method for allocating seats to parties in an election. <https://en.wiki...

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pizza deals
Given two pizza slices of different sizes: * Slice A with angle alpha1, radius r1, and price p1 * Slice B with angle alpha2,...

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Design matrix from eigenvalues
Write a function that takes one input argument n and outputs a (n x n) square matrix A with the following properties: -A has...

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Find the centroid of triangle
Imagine that you want to calculate the *centroid* of some _triangles_ given in matrix form. First the coordinates of the vertice...

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Cumulative probability of finding an unlikely combination
This is a supplemental problem to the <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/621-cryptomath-addition CryptoMath> ...

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