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Smallest distance between a point and a rectangle
Given two points *x* and *y* placed at opposite corners of a rectangle, find the minimal euclidean distance between another poin...

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Spherical radius given four points
Determine the radius of a sphere provided four non-coplanar points on the surface of the sphere. pts = [x1 y1 z1; x...

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Great Circle Distance
Find shortest between two points on a ball given their azimuthal and polar angles (in degrees) as well as the radius of the sphe...

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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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Clockwise or Counterclockwise
Given a list of 2-d points defining the vertices of a polygon, determine whether these points are sorted clockwise. The input...

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Right Triangle Side Lengths (Inspired by Project Euler Problem 39)
If _p_ is the perimeter of a right angle triangle with integral length sides, { _a_, _b_, _c_ }, there are exactly three solutio...

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Clock Hand Angle 1
Given a time in HH:MM:SS, find the smallest angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hand

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Find third Side of a right triangle given hypotenuse and a side. No * - or other functions allowed
Find the remaining side of a triangle given the hypotenuse and a side. However, the normal functions and symbols are not allowe...

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Volume of a Parallelepiped
Calculate the volume of a Parallelepiped given the vectors for three edges that meet at one vertex. A cube is a special case ...

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Television Screen Dimensions
Given a width to height ratio of a TV screen given as _w_ and _h_ as well as the diagonal length of the television _l_, return t...

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Are all the three given point in the same line?
In this problem the input is the coordinate of the three points in a XY plane? P1(X1,Y1) P2(X2,Y2) P3(X3,Y3) how can...

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Are you in or are you out?
Given vertices specified by the vectors xv and yv, and a single point specified by the numbers X and Y, return "true" if the poi...

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Similar Triangles - find the height of the tree
Given the height, h1, of a power pole, shorter than a tree, a given distance, x2 away, please find h2, height of the tree. Pleas...

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Angle between Two Vectors
The dot product relationship, a dot b = | a | | b | cos(theta), can be used to determine the acute angle between vector a and ve...

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Calculate the area of a triangle between three points
Calculate the area of a triangle between three points: P1(X1,Y1) P2(X2,Y2) P3(X3,Y3) these three points are the vert...

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What is the distance from point P(x,y) to the line Ax + By + C = 0?
Given a point, P(x,y), find the distance from this point to a linear line. INPUTS: x, y, A, B, C OUTPUTS: d, the distance ...

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Is the Point in a Circle?
Check whether a point or multiple points is/are in a circle centered at point (x0, y0) with radius r. Points = [x, y]; c...

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Angle between two vectors
You have two vectors , determine the angle between these two vectors For example: u = [0 0 1]; v = [1 0 0]; The a...

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Circumscribed circles
Given the lengths of the 3 sides of a triangle, output the radius of the circumscribed circle. Example: [3 4 5] -> 2.5

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Right and wrong
Given a vector of lengths [a b c], determines whether a triangle with those sides lengths is a right triangle: <http://en.wikipe...

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Operate on matrices of unequal, yet similar, size
You may want to add a vector to a matrix, implying that the vector is added to each column of the matrix. Or multiply a 3x4x5 ma...

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7 segment LED display
Given a whole number, output how many segments would be lit up to display it on a 7 segment LED display (http://en.wikipedia.org...

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Sum of diagonals elements of a matrix
Given a matrix, return the sum of all the elements across the diagonals. E.g. A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9;...

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Sophie Germain prime
In number theory, a prime number p is a *Sophie Germain prime* if 2p + 1 is also prime. For example, 23 is a Sophie Germain prim...

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construct matrix with identical rows
Input a row vector such as x=1:10. Now we need to construct a matrix with L rows,of which every row vector is a copy of x. E...

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06 - Matrix Equations 3
Define the matrices _aMat_, _bMat_, and _cMat_: <<http://samle.dk/STTBDP/Assignment1_3a.png>> ( _aMat_ = 9x9 matrix full o...

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Love triangles
Given a vector of lengths [a b c], determines whether a triangle with non-zero area (in two-dimensional Euclidean space, smarty!...

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Is it an Armstrong number?
An Armstrong number of three digits is an integer such that the sum of the cubes of its digits is equal to the number itself. Fo...

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03 - Matrix Variables 2
Make the following variable: <<http://samle.dk/STTBDP/Assignment1_3b.png>> A 9x9 matrix of zeros, but with the following v...

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07 - Common functions and indexing 6
Create a variable _m_ as a magic square with the size 6 x 6 Magic squares are defined as square matrices, where the sum of a...

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