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Cannon Ball
Given g (acceleration due to gravity) and desired altitude x, find the minimum ground velocity of a cannon ball to reach x.

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Kaprekar Steps
6174 is the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174_%28number%29 Kaprekar constant>. All natural numbers less than 10,000 (except som...

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Convert a vector into a number
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Count photos
Given n people, everyone must have pictures taken with everyone, each photo includes only two persons, please count the total nu...

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Is this matrix orthogonal?
Given a square matrix, a, determine whether it is orthogonal. INPUT: a, a n x n matrix OUTPUT: true or false

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Triangle Numbers Below N
This is an offshoot of <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/5-triangle-numbers Cody Problem 5: Triangle Numbers...

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N-Queens Checker
Picture a chessboard populated with a number of queens (i.e. pieces that can move like a queen in chess). The board is a matrix,...

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Find matching parenthesis
One of the most indispensable things about a great text editor for programming is the ability to quickly jump between matching p...

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Flip the main diagonal of a matrix
Given a n x n matrix, M, flip its main diagonal. Example: >> M=magic(5); >> flipDiagonal(M) 9 24 1 ...

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Back to basics 15 - classes
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return the class of the input variable.

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Back to basics 4 - Search Path
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return a string that is the user's portion of the current search...

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Return the first and last character of a string
Return the first and last character of a string, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the string, the functi...

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DC chopper
Input x is the sampled signal vector, may have both AC and DC components. output vector y should have AC components removed then...

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Word Counting and Indexing
You are given a list of strings, each being a list of words divided by spaces. Break the strings into words, then return a maste...

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Create a function handle that reverses the input arguments of another function handle
Given a function that takes two input arguments and returns one output, create another function handle that performs the same op...

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Project Euler: Problem 8, Find largest product in a large string of numbers
Find the greatest product of five consecutive digits in an n-digit number. 73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934...

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Make an N-dimensional Multiplication Table
*INSTRUCTIONS* This is a multi-dimensional variant of the normal multiplication table used to teach elementary students multi...

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Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings
This problem description is lifted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance>. The Levenshtein distance betwee...

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Replace May with April
For instance, if the input is input_str = 'The flowers may bloom in April'; then the output is output_str = 'The flo...

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Get the area codes from a list of phone numbers
Given a string of text with phone numbers in it, return a unique'd cell array of strings that are the area codes. s = '508-647...

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Back to basics 21 - Matrix replicating
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Given an input matrix, generate an output matrix that consists o...

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Back to basics 3 - Temp Directory
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return a string that is the path to the system's current temp di...

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Longest Divisor Run
Given the vector a, find the longest run of consecutive numbers that can be evenly divided by the same number d where d > 1. ...

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DNA N-Gram Distribution
Given a string s and a number n, find the most frequently occurring n-gram in the string, where the n-grams can begin at any poi...

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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
Given an input cell array of strings s, pick out the second column and turn it into a row vector of data. Missing data will be i...

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Remove the polynomials that have positive real elements of their roots.
The characteristic equation for a dynamic system is a polynomial whose roots indicate its behavior. If any of the <http://www.ma...

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Mandelbrot Numbers
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set Mandelbrot Set> is built around a simple iterative equation. z(1) = c z...

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What is the next step in Conway's Life?
Given a matrix A that represents the state of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life Conway's game of Life> at one ...

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Number of 1s in a binary string
Find the number of 1s in the given binary string. Example. If the input string is '1100101', the output is 4. If the input stri...

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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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