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Clockwise or Counterclockwise
Given a list of 2-d points defining the vertices of a polygon, determine whether these points are sorted clockwise. The input...

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Are you in or are you out?
Given vertices specified by the vectors xv and yv, and a single point specified by the numbers X and Y, return "true" if the poi...

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Circumscribed circles
Given the lengths of the 3 sides of a triangle, output the radius of the circumscribed circle. Example: [3 4 5] -> 2.5

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Similar Triangles - find the height of the tree
Given the height, h1, of a power pole, shorter than a tree, a given distance, x2 away, please find h2, height of the tree. Pleas...

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Angle between two vectors
You have two vectors , determine the angle between these two vectors For example: u = [0 0 1]; v = [1 0 0]; The a...

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Clock Hand Angle 1
Given a time in HH:MM:SS, find the smallest angle (in degrees) between the hour and minute hand

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Covering area
As an extension of the problem <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/416-polygon-area>, find the area, bounded b...

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What is the distance from point P(x,y) to the line Ax + By + C = 0?
Given a point, P(x,y), find the distance from this point to a linear line. INPUTS: x, y, A, B, C OUTPUTS: d, the distance ...

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Is the Point in a Circle?
Check whether a point or multiple points is/are in a circle centered at point (x0, y0) with radius r. Points = [x, y]; c...

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Angle between Two Vectors
The dot product relationship, a dot b = | a | | b | cos(theta), can be used to determine the acute angle between vector a and ve...

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Spherical radius given four points
Determine the radius of a sphere provided four non-coplanar points on the surface of the sphere. pts = [x1 y1 z1; x...

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Volume of a Parallelepiped
Calculate the volume of a Parallelepiped given the vectors for three edges that meet at one vertex. A cube is a special case ...

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Are all the three given point in the same line?
In this problem the input is the coordinate of the three points in a XY plane? P1(X1,Y1) P2(X2,Y2) P3(X3,Y3) how can...

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Find third Side of a right triangle given hypotenuse and a side. No * - or other functions allowed
Find the remaining side of a triangle given the hypotenuse and a side. However, the normal functions and symbols are not allowe...

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Television Screen Dimensions
Given a width to height ratio of a TV screen given as _w_ and _h_ as well as the diagonal length of the television _l_, return t...

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RISK Calculator - Large Armies, High Accuracy, Fast
This Challenge is to quickly provide the high precision probability of legal RISK battles up to 100 vs 100. [ Attack >= 2 and D...

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RISK board game battle simulation
Given two positive integer inputs, a (attacker army units) and d (defender army units) return the probablity of victory (from 0....

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Game of Nim
The Game of Nim is a famous studied 2 player strategy game. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim> There are 3 heaps, and you...

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Go-style solver
Consider a variation of the game Go where one player has gone ahead and placed several pieces all at once. Assuming that the sec...

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Pentago: find winning move
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentago Pentago> is a challenging two-player strategy game. The objective is to be the first playe...

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Chess ELO rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative chess skill levels of players in competitor-versus-competitor gam...

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Chess performance
After Problems <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/3054-chess-elo-rating-system/ 3054> and <http://www.mathwor...

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Chess probability
The difference in the ratings between two players serves as a predictor of the outcome of a match (the <http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Valid Chess Moves
Using standard Algebraic notation ('' for a pawn), given previous move and a next move, output true if it is a valid move or fal...

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Identify Reachable Points
Given a vector of 2-D Points and a vector of 2-D Deltas create an array of all Locations that can be reached from the points usi...

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Wheat on a chessboard pt 2
If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that x grains were placed on the first square and each successiv...

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Wheat on a chessboard pt 1
If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that one grain were placed on the first square and each successi...

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N-Queens Checker
Picture a chessboard populated with a number of queens (i.e. pieces that can move like a queen in chess). The board is a matrix,...

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Eight Queens Solution Checker
Write a function to verify whether an arrangement of queens on a chessboard is a valid solution to the classic eight queens prob...

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hanoi towers II
with 3 rods (1,2 & 3), the goal is to move a tower of n disks from rod #1 to rod #3. You can move disks only one by one, on the...

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