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Return the largest number that is adjacent to a zero
This example comes from Steve Eddins' blog: <http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2009/05/27/learning-lessons-from-a-one-liner/ Lear...

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Sums with Excluded Digits
Add all the integers from 1 to n in which the digit m does not appear. m will always be a single digit integer from 0 to 9. no...

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Making change
Given an amount of currency, return a vector of this form: [100 50 20 10 5 2 1 0.5 0.25 0.1 0.05 0.01] Example: Input a = ...

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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...

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Which doors are open?
There are n doors in an alley. Initially they are all shut. You have been tasked to go down the alley n times, and open/shut the...

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Make a Palindrome Number
Some numbers like 323 are palindromes. Other numbers like 124 are not. But look what happens when we add that number to a revers...

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Subset Sum
Given a vector v of integers and an integer n, return the the indices of v (as a row vector in ascending order) that sum to n. I...

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Find the alphabetic word product
If the input string s is a word like 'hello', then the output word product p is a number based on the correspondence a=1, b=2, ....

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Reverse Run-Length Encoder
Given a "counting sequence" vector x, construct the original sequence y. A counting sequence is formed by "counting" the entrie...

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Pascal's Triangle
Given an integer n >= 0, generate the length n+1 row vector representing the n-th row of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_t...

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Quote Doubler
Given a string s1, find all occurrences of the single quote character and replace them with two occurrences of the single quote ...

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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
Given the string s1, return the string s2 with the target characters removed. For example, given s1 = 'the main event' your ...

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Counting Money
Add the numbers given in the cell array of strings. The strings represent amounts of money using this notation: $99,999.99. E...

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Estimating Euler's (Oi-ler-z) Number
Euler's number is an irrational constant given by Starting with x=0, count the number of times you can add a uniformly distrib...

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Generate Tribonacci Sequence
The "Tribonacci" sequence is an extension of the idea of the Fibonacci sequence: That is, each new term is the sum of the thr...

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Generate Pascal's Triangle Matrix
Pascal's triangle is an arrangement of numbers where each value is the sum of the values adjacent to it in the previous row: ...

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Interpolated Value Between Two Points
Given two points, and , a new location x, and a method "linear" or "cubic", return the value of a linear or cubic interpolant t...

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Next Tribonacci Number
The "Tribonacci" sequence is an extension of the idea of the Fibonacci sequence: That is, each new term is the sum of the thr...

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A Binary Search
One way to locate a target value in a sorted array, is to use a binary search algorithm. Here, you test if the midpoint in the a...

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Taylor Series
You can use a Taylor series to approximate common functions. The Taylor series for sin(x) is Using only the first several te...

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Calculate Angle From Axis
Given coordinates x and y, an axis ("X" or "Y"), and a direction ("cw" or "ccw", meaning clockwise and counterclockwise, respect...

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Where the Four Corners Am I? (Vectorized)
NOTE: this problem is intended to build on problem #55960 ("Where the Four Corners Am I?"). You may wish to solve that problem f...

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Where the Four Corners Am I?
The "Four Corners" region of the US is where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico all meet - the only place where four states...

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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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Pangrams!
A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Example: Input s ...

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Interpolator
You have a two vectors, a and b. They are monotonic and the same length. Given a value, va, where va is between a(1) and a(end),...

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Large Sum (inspired by Project Euler 13)
Your function will be provided an arbitrary number of numbers of arbitrary sizes as a cell array of strings. Some numbers will b...

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Recurring Cycle Length (Inspired by Project Euler Problem 26)
Preface: This problem is inspired by <http://projecteuler.net/problem=26 Project Euler Problem 26> and uses text from that quest...

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Longest Collatz Sequence
Inspired by Projet Euler n°14. The Collatz iterative sequence (See Cody problem n° 2103 and 211) is defined for the set of po...

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Highly divisible triangular number (inspired by Project Euler 12)
Triangular numbers can be calculated by the sum from 1 to n. For example, the first 10 triangular numbers are: 1, 3, 6, 10, ...

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