Community Profile

photo

Bruce Raine


Last seen: 16 days ago Active since 2010

I like to solve most kinds of maths problems that I come across. I have used MATLAB for around 7 years and really enjoy programming it to solve maths and statistics problems. I hold a Masters degree entitled: Master of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (Hons). Professional Interests: Maths and Programming

Statistics

All
  • First Answer
  • Likeable
  • Famous
  • Personal Best Downloads Level 2
  • First Review
  • 5-Star Galaxy Level 2
  • First Submission
  • Quiz Master
  • Puzzler
  • Promoter
  • Commenter
  • Creator

View badges

Content Feed

View by

Solved


Frobenius Norm
Write your own version of Frobenius Norm without using the 'norm' function.

11 years ago

Problem


Frobenius Norm
Write your own version of Frobenius Norm without using the 'norm' function.

11 years ago | 1 | 91 solvers

Solved


Simple date to serial no. conversion
Convert a date string to a serial date number. For example if you take x='19-May-2001' then the result is 730990 x...

11 years ago

Solved


Find the definite integral of various linear functions
A definite integral had a minimum and maximum limit. When you solve this type of problem you must use both quad and the trapz fu...

11 years ago

Problem


Find the definite integral of various linear functions
A definite integral had a minimum and maximum limit. When you solve this type of problem you must use both quad and the trapz fu...

11 years ago | 1 | 51 solvers

Problem


How long do each of the stages of the rocket take to burn?
A space rocket has 3 stages: - stage 1, s1; - stage 2, s2; - stage 3, s3. If s1 burns 3 x as long as s2 which burns ...

11 years ago | 1 | 255 solvers

Solved


How long do each of the stages of the rocket take to burn?
A space rocket has 3 stages: - stage 1, s1; - stage 2, s2; - stage 3, s3. If s1 burns 3 x as long as s2 which burns ...

11 years ago

Problem


Find the nearest integer
Given a vector of integers and a real number find the closest integer. EX: >> a = [2 4 5 6 8 10]; >> b = 4.6; >> nea...

11 years ago | 2 | 335 solvers

Solved


Find the nearest integer
Given a vector of integers and a real number find the closest integer. EX: >> a = [2 4 5 6 8 10]; >> b = 4.6; >> nea...

11 years ago

Problem


How many days does the cat take to climb out of the hole?
A cat accidentally falls down a hole with sloping but rough sides. It can climb out of the hole of height h metres, but for ever...

11 years ago | 4 | 76 solvers

Solved


How many days does the cat take to climb out of the hole?
A cat accidentally falls down a hole with sloping but rough sides. It can climb out of the hole of height h metres, but for ever...

11 years ago

Solved


Penny flipping - calculate winning probability (easy)
Two players are playing a fair penny flipping game. For each flip, the winner adds one penny from the loser's collection to his/...

11 years ago

Solved


Sorted highest to lowest?
Return 1 if the input is sorted from highest to lowest, 0 if not. Example: 1:7 -> 0 [7 5 2] -> 1

11 years ago

Solved


inner product of two vectors
inner product of two vectors

11 years ago

Solved


Bottles of beer
Given an input number representing the number of bottles of beer on the wall, output how many are left if you take one down and ...

11 years ago

Solved


radius of a spherical planet
you just measured its surface area, that is the input.

11 years ago

Solved


Swap the input arguments
Write a two-input, two-output function that swaps its two input arguments. For example: [q,r] = swap(5,10) returns q = ...

11 years ago

Solved


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...

11 years ago

Solved


Distance walked 1D
Suppose you go from position 7 to 10 to 6 to 4. Then you have walked 9 units of distance, since 7 to 10 is 3 units, 10 to 6 is 4...

11 years ago

Solved


Extract leading non-zero digit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Benford's Law> states that the distribution of leading digits is not random. This...

11 years ago

Solved


Replace multiples of 5 with NaN
It is required to replace all values in a vector that are multiples of 5 with NaN. Example: input: x = [1 2 5 12 10 7] ...

11 years ago

Solved


Will there be a new leader?
Simply answer the title.

11 years ago

Solved


The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
A variation of a previous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy problem. *Inputs:* Life, the Universe, and Everything *Output:*...

11 years ago

Solved


Rotate a Matrix by 90 degrees
Rotate a Matrix by 90 degrees Example: If the input is: X = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...

12 years ago

Solved


Convert from Base 10 to base 5
Convert the input number from base 10 into base 5: for example: if a(in base 10)= 5 then a(in base 5)= 10

12 years ago

Solved


Matrix indexing with two vectors of indices
Given a matrix M and two index vectors a and b, return a row vector x where x(i) = M(a(i),b(i)).

12 years ago

Solved


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

12 years ago

Solved


Whether the input is vector?
Given the input x, return 1 if x is vector or else 0.

12 years ago

Problem


Is A the inverse of B?
Given a matrix A and a matrix B, is A the inverse of B? >>A=[2,4;3,5]; >>B=[-2.5,2;1.5,-1]; >>isInverse...

12 years ago | 12 | 837 solvers

Solved


Sum of first n terms of a harmonic progression
Given inputs a, d and n, return the sum of the first n terms of the harmonic progression a, a/(1+d), a/(1+2d), a/(1+3d),....

12 years ago

Load more