Colin Hickey

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Numbers spiral diagonals (Part 2)
Inspired by Project Euler n°28 and 58. A n x n spiral matrix is obtained by starting with the number 1 and moving to the right ...

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Numbers spiral diagonals (Part 1)
Inspired by Project Euler n°28 et 58. A n x n spiral matrix is obtained by starting with the number 1 and moving to the right...

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Recurring Cycle Length (Inspired by Project Euler Problem 26)
Preface: This problem is inspired by Project Euler Problem 26 and uses text from that question to explain what a recurring cycle...

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Project Euler: Problem 18, Maximum path sum I
By starting at the top of the triangle below and moving to adjacent numbers on the row below, the maximum total from top to bott...

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Project Euler: Problem 16, Sums of Digits of Powers of Two
2^15 = 32768 and the sum of its digits is 3 + 2 + 7 + 6 + 8 = 26. What is the sum of the digits of the number 2^N? Thanks ...

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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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Divisors for big integer
Inspired by Problem 1025 and Project Euler 12. Given n, return the number y of integers that divide N. For example, with ...

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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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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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Project Euler: Problem 11, Largest product in a grid
What is the greatest product of k adjacent numbers in the same direction (up, down, left, right, or diagonally) in a n×n grid ? ...

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Sum of big primes without primes
Inspired by Project Euler n°10 (I am quite obviously a fan). With problem n°250 by Doug, you can find some global methods to co...

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Sums of cubes and squares of sums
Given the positive integers 1:n, can you: 1. Compute twice the sum of the cubes of those numbers. 2. Subtract the square...

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Can we make a triangle?
Given three positive number, check whether a triangle can be made with these sides length or not. remember that in a triangle su...

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Find the sides of an isosceles triangle when given its area and height from its base to apex
Find the sides of an isosceles triangle when given its area and the height from its base to apex. For example, with A=12 and h=...

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Height of a right-angled triangle
Given numbers a, b and c, find the height of the right angled triangle with sides a and b and hypotenuse c, for the base c. If a...

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Is the Point in a Triangle?
Check whether a point or multiple points is/are in a triangle with three corners Points = [x, y]; Triangle = [x1, y1; x2, y...

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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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Find my daddy long leg (No 's')
Given the ratio of the two legs (longer / shorter), and the hypotenuse length, find the value of the bigger leg.

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Is this triangle right-angled?
Given any three positive numbers a, b, c, return true if the triangle with sides a, b and c is right-angled. Otherwise, return f...

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Side of an equilateral triangle
If an equilateral triangle has area A, then what is the length of each of its sides, x? Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

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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 vertices of ...

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Natural numbers in string form
Create a cell array of strings containing the first n natural numbers. Slightly harder than it seems like it should be. Exampl...

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Fix the last element of a cell array
Note: this is lifted directly from <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/82825-puzzler-for-a-monday Puzzler for a Mond...

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String Array Basics, Part 1: Convert Cell Array to String Array; No Missing Values
<http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html String array> and cell array are two types of containers for s...

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Cell Counting: How Many Draws?
You are given a cell array containing information about a number of soccer games. Each cell contains one of the following: * ...

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Remove element(s) from cell array
You can easily remove an element (or a column in any dimension) from a normal matrix, but assigning that value (or range) empty....

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Convert a Cell Array into an Array
Given a square cell array: x = {'01', '56'; '234', '789'}; return a single character array: y = '0123456789'

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Split a string into chunks of specified length
Given a string and a vector of integers, break the string into chunks whose lengths are given by the elements of the vector. Ex...

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Convert a numerical matrix into a cell array of strings
Given a numerical matrix, output a *cell array of string*. For example: if input = 1:3 output is {'1','2','3'} whic...

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Create a cell array out of a struct
Create a cell array out of a (single) struct with the fieldname in the first column and the value in the second column: in: ...

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