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Maximum running product for a string of numbers
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Summing Digits within Text
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Find the alphabetic word product
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Who Has the Most Change?
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Find the numeric mean of the prime numbers in a matrix.
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Finding Perfect Squares
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Indexed Probability Table
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Cell joiner
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Scrabble Scores
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Given a positive integer find whether it is a balanced number. For a balanced number the sum of first half of digits is equal to...

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Make a Palindrome Number
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De-dupe
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Sums with Excluded Digits
Add all the integers from 1 to n in which the digit m does not appear. m will always be a single digit integer from 0 to 9. no...

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Pascal's Triangle
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Return a list sorted by number of occurrences
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Sort a list of complex numbers based on far they are from the origin.
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The Goldbach Conjecture, Part 2
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Counting Money
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Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row.
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Binary numbers
Given a positive, scalar integer n, create a (2^n)-by-n double-precision matrix containing the binary numbers from 0 through 2^n...

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Find the longest sequence of 1's in a binary sequence.
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