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English to Pig Latin Translator
Pig latin is a faux-language based off of English. The rules are as follows (excerpted from the wikipedia entry for Pig Latin): ...

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Looking for Squares
Need n squares that equal one square all together, none zero, none fractured. For example, calling squares(2) should output [16...

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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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Aufbau principle
Given the order e=[1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d, 4p, 5s, 4d, 5p, 6s, 4f, 5d, 6p, 7s, 5f, 6d, 7p], find a vector x with these condi...

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Blood test?
Assuming: the genetic makeup (genotype) of a child is coded as a pair with two components, combining half genotype of one parent...

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Fun Race
* Given two unary functions foo and goo. * Check whether foo(0) runs faster than goo(0). * Output 1 if foo is faster, otherwis...

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Bouncing disk
A disk is placed in a rectangular room with dimensions a and b in a point with coordinates x0 and y0. The disk is given a startu...

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root?
* Given a function 'foo', and a position 'there', find the root near 'there'. * For example: If foo=@sin, and there=3.1, then r...

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You LOVES Matlab 41%
Given two strings, determine the percentage that one loves the other in the following way: YOU LOVES MATLAB there is 1 '...

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deconvolution
* Suppose there is a vector v like [1 0 0 -1], representing polynomial coefficients. * In this example, the polynimial is 1*x^3...

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Retirement savings
At the start of what year will you have reached or exceeded a savings goal? Parameters (all are constant scalars given in a s...

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The Birthday Phenomenon
First off, leap years are not being considered for this. In fact the year that people are born shouldn't be taken into considera...

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Compute a dot product of two vectors x and y
x and y are input vectors, d is a number and contains their dot product

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edge detection
write a function that gives the indexes of rising or falling edge x is a vector (assume it contains always at least one eleme...

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Find matching string from a list of strings
Write a function that returns a string that is a unique match (if it exists) of the string |inStr| from a list of strings |strLi...

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Find the stride of the longest skip sequence
We define a _skip sequence_ as a regularly-spaced list of integers such as might be generated by MATLAB's <http://www.mathworks....

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Rotate a Matrix
Input a Matrix x, Output y is the matrix rotating x 90 degrees clockwise

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Determine Whether an array is empty
Input a matrix x, output y is TRUE if x is empty, otherwise FALSE.

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Get the length of a given vector
Given a vector x, the output y should equal the length of x.

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Covering area
As an extension of the problem <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/416-polygon-area>, find the area, bounded b...

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count any radix?
given radix r(2-9), digts d(1-4), give all possible strings in sorted order. for example, if r=2, d=2, then output {'00' '01' '1...

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Sum the Infinite Series
Given that 0 < x and x < 2*pi where x is in radians, write a function [c,s] = infinite_series(x); that returns with the...

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Decimal Comparison
*Background* A utility of particular interest to Cody and other MATLAB ventures is comparing the equality of two numbers. In ...

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Gambler?
Given a handle to a wealth function, confirm within 100 milliseconds 'Millionaire', 'Likely', or 'Gambler', if wealth() returns ...

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Generalized N-Cards Problem
Preface: This is a generalized version of the problem I presented <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/271-n-ca...

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

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Multiply a column by a row
* Given a column vector C and and a row vector R. * Output a matrix M. * Every column of M equals to C multiplied by correspon...

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Recurrence relation
A recurrence relation is given by P(1) := 1 P(n+1) := exp(1) - (n+1)*P(n) Write a function that, given an integer |...

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Compress strings (not springs)
Please remove excess space, limit one space between others, and no space before punctuation marks. * For example, 'Trendy , ...

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exactly?
given two strings of numeric expressions such as '1-7/14' and '11/22+0.2^2', return 1 if they are numerically exactly equal othe...

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