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Split bread like the Pharaohs - Egyptian fractions and greedy algorithm
How would you split 5 loaves of bread among 8 people in all fairness? Get a hint from the Pharaohs. 5/8 = 4/8 + 1/8 , i.e. each ...

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Coin Distribution - 02
Prev prob <https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/45385-coin-distribution> Given a set of coins and an amount,...

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Coin distribution
Imagine, u r in a shop. ur bill is n(2200). u want to pay the bill with minimum no of coins u have. u've coins of - 2000,1000...

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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 between two...

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Counting in Finnish
Sort a vector of single digit whole numbers alphabetically by their name, in Finnish. See the Wikipedia page for <http://en.wik...

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It dseon't mettar waht oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are.
An internet meme from 2003 (read more here) asserted that readers are relatively insensitive to letter order in words, so long a...

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Given two arrays, find the maximum overlap
Given two (integer) arrays s1 and s2, create a new array s3 which is as short as possible and contains both arrays. #1 s1 = [...

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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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Nearest Numbers
Given a row vector of numbers, find the indices of the two nearest numbers. Examples: [index1 index2] = nearestNumbers([2 5 3...

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Cell joiner
You are given a cell array of strings and a string delimiter. You need to produce one string which is composed of each string fr...

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De-dupe
Remove all the redundant elements in a vector, but keep the first occurrence of each value in its original location. So if a =...

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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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Find the sum of all the numbers of the input vector
Find the sum of all the numbers of the input vector x. Examples: Input x = [1 2 3 5] Output y is 11 Input x ...

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Add two numbers
Given a and b, return the sum a+b in c.

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Diophantine Equations (Inspired by Project Euler, problem 66)
Consider the quadratic Diophantine equation of the form: x^2 – Dy^2 = 1 When D=13, the minimal solution in x is 649^2 – 13...

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Decrypt the cypher using XOR encryption (for beginners)
Inspired by Project Euler n°59 Each character on a computer is assigned a unique code and the preferred standard is ASCII (...

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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 solutions for p...

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Circular Primes (based on Project Euler, problem 35)
The number, 197, is called a circular prime because all rotations of the digits: 197, 971, and 719, are themselves prime. The...

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Pandigital number n°3 (Inspired by Project Euler 32)
After Problem 2319 and 2320. An n-digit number is pandigital if it makes use of all the digits 1 to n exactly ONCE. For examp...

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Pandigital number n°2 (Inspired by Project Euler 32)
After Problem 2319. An n-digit number is pandigital if it makes use of all the digits 1 to n exactly ONCE. For example, the 5-...

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Pandigital number n°1 (Inspired by Project Euler 32)
A little warm-up to begin... An n-digit number is pandigital if it makes use of all the digits 1 to n exactly ONCE. For ex...

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I've got the power! (Inspired by Project Euler problem 29)
Consider all integer combinations of a^b and b^a for the integer values 2 ≤ a ≤ 4 and 2 ≤ b ≤ 5: 2^2=4, 2^3=8, 2^4=16,...

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Times 2 - START HERE
Try out this test problem first. Given the variable x as your input, multiply it by two and put the result in y. Examples:...

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