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Number of 1s in a binary string
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Clean the List of Names
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Duplicates
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The Goldbach Conjecture
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Balanced number
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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Return the largest number that is adjacent to a zero
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Pascal's Triangle
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Which doors are open?
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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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Target sorting
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Replace NaNs with the number that appears to its left in the row.
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Counting Money
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Summing Digits within Text
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Trimming Spaces
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Find the alphabetic word product
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Indexed Probability Table
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Which values occur exactly three times?
Return a list of all values (sorted smallest to largest) that appear exactly three times in the input vector x. So if x = [1 2...

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Remove the vowels
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Sort a list of complex numbers based on far they are from the origin.
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Cell joiner
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De-dupe
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Find the Pattern 2

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Remove all the consonants
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Matlab Basics - Rounding II
Write a script to round a variable x to 3 decimal places: e.g. x = 2.3456 --> y = 2.346

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Sum of series VII
What is the sum of the following sequence: Σ(km^k)/(k+m)! for k=1...n for different n and m?

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Create times-tables
At one time or another, we all had to memorize boring times tables. 5 times 5 is 25. 5 times 6 is 30. 12 times 12 is way more th...

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Nearest Numbers
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Most nonzero elements in row
Given the matrix a, return the index r of the row with the most nonzero elements. Assume there will always be exactly one row th...

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Pangrams!
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Swap the input arguments
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