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Convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius
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Get the area codes from a list of phone numbers
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Calculate Amount of Cake Frosting
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Renaming a field in a structure array
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Indexed Probability Table
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The Goldbach Conjecture, Part 2
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Remove the polynomials that have positive real elements of their roots.
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It dseon't mettar waht oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are.
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Find common elements in matrix rows
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The Goldbach Conjecture
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Tic Tac Toe FTW
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