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Get the area codes from a list of phone numbers
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Remove the small words from a list of words.
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Remove the polynomials that have positive real elements of their roots.
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Find the two-word state names
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Find state names that end with the letter A
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Find state names that start with the letter N
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Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value
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Find relatively common elements in matrix rows
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Counting in Finnish
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Alphabetize by last name
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Clean the List of Names
Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So...

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Test for balanced parentheses
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Scrabble Scores
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Write a function that accepts a cell array of strings and returns another cell array of strings *with only the duplicates* retai...

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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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Given a tic tac toe board: * 1 represents X * 0 represents empty. * -1 represents O It is X's move. If there is an imme...

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Extract leading non-zero digit
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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
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Function Iterator
Given a handle fh to a function which takes a scalar input and returns a scalar output and an integer n >= 1, return a handle f...

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Find the two most distant points
Given a collection of points, return the indices of the rows that contain the two points most distant from one another. The inpu...

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Summing Digits within Text
Given a string with text and digits, add all the numbers together. Examples: Input str = '4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a...

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