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Polygonal numbers
The task of <http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/cody/problems/5 Problem 5> is to calculate triangular numbers. By playing ...

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Convert given decimal number to binary number.
Convert given decimal number to binary number. Example x=10, then answer must be 1010.

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Pattern Recognition 1 - Known Unit Length
You will be given various arrays, composed of numbers or strings. For this problem, the known pattern unit length is three. Writ...

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Cumulative minimum of an array
Find the cumulative minimum of an array without using the built-in function <http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/cummin.htm...

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Cumulative maximum of an array
Find the cumulative maximum of an array without using the built-in function cummax (and a few others). Your function should act ...

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String Logic 9
Examples: 'CAT' --> 'C' 'DOG' --> 'G' 'ROSLY' --> 'R' 'PROBLEM' --> 'M' 'TRUST' --> 'T' 'BASIC' --> 'C' 'GIANT' --> 'I'...

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String Logic 12
Examples: 'CAT' --> 'ACT' 'DOG' --> 'DGO' 'ROSY' --> 'ORSY' 'MOSTLY' --> 'LMOSTY'

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Simpson's Paradox - Calculate correlation coefficients for groups of data
Simpson's Paradox is a statistical phenomenon where groups of data can have a characteristic while the whole data set together h...

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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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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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Count letters occurence in text, specific to words with a given length.
Build a function with two input arguments: a string and a word length (number of letters), that outputs a vector of counts of th...

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Determine if x is a combination of m and n
Given positive integers x, m, and n, determine if x can be written as x = am + bn for any (non-negative) integers a and b. Your ...

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Find Closest Constant
Given a number x, return the value that is closest to x from this list of constants: 0, 1, , e, , (also known as ). For exampl...

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Calculating Student Grades
The matrix grades contains raw grades for 7 students who took your course. Each row represents a different student. The first 7 ...

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Merge two integers
We want to merge the digits of two integers having the same number of digits to obtain a new integer whose digits are obtained b...

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Find max prime number
Given integer number n. Find the max prime number (mpn) that smaller than or equal to n. Example: n = 10 --> mpn = 7

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ZigZag - 01
Given a matrix, return the elements that are on the Z form of the matrix. For example - a=[1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9] ...

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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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Fermat's Last Theorem - Fermat's conjecture
Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a...

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Lychrel Number Test (Inspired by Project Euler Problem 55)
The task for this problem is to create a function that takes a number _n_ and tests if it might be a Lychrel number. This is, re...

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Operate on matrices of unequal, yet similar, size
You may want to add a vector to a matrix, implying that the vector is added to each column of the matrix. Or multiply a 3x4x5 ma...

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N-Dimensional Array Slice
Given an N-dimensional array, _A_, an index, _I_, and a dimension, _d_, return the _I_ th elements of _A_ in the _d_ dimension. ...

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How close to a hole
Suppose you have a description of good places (ones) and bad places (zeros). You want to know your distance from a bad place (in...

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How to reverse spdiags?
The spdiags function extracts all nonzero diagonals from the m-by-n matrix A. So if A=[1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9], spdiags(A)=[7 4...

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Find the distance between runs
Another question inspired by the <http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/?s_tid=gn_mlc_an answers forum>: A vector of ...

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Vector indexing: lower than mean
Find indices of values in a vector lower than the mean of the vector

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Remove the diagonal of a square matrix
Some Cody problems ask solvers to remove columns (e.g., CP 7), and others ask solvers to remove rows (e.g., CP 44033). Write a...

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Pancake sorting - minimum flips.
Sort a stack of pancakes by flipping them using spatula. There are N pancakes with diameters 1:N. Spatula can be inserted anyw...

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Pancake sorting
Sort a stack of pancakes by flipping them using spatula. * There are _N_ pancakes with diameters _1:N_. * Spatula can be ins...

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