Problem 112. Remove the air bubbles

Created by Ned Gulley

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Chien-Han Su on 2 Nov 2020

love this one

Jakeb Chouinard on 20 Nov 2020

28 attempts later, we finally made it

Ngo Tien Sang on 8 Jul 2021 at 1:33

nice question!

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Solution 909152

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Atsushi Ueno on 15 Jun 2016

zeros are added to convert a logical to double.

Solution 104277

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 4 Sep 2013

The first time I see this kind of bsxfun.

Solution 23069

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Mike Keenan on 1 Feb 2012

Looks like I have the lamest possible solution!

yurenchu on 30 Apr 2017

I think it would be funny to see this solution in action by an animation of iterations! :-)

Solution 10280

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 28 Jan 2012

this breaks with nan's, solution 6118 does not

Solution 7176

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Thomas on 26 Jan 2012

There is a bug in this Problem

function b = bubbles(a)
b = [];
end
Passes the test.
One needs to check: b_correct ~= [].

Thomas on 26 Jan 2012

To the sort User :
[-1 0]' would come out [ -1 0] '

Solution 6689

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 26 Jan 2012

need to fix the test suite to include non-sorted non-zero elements

Solution 6496

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 28 Jan 2012

wishful thinking: perhaps sort 'should' behave like relational operators...

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