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The Bridges of Nedsburg
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A Nedlish Country Garden - Check for Valid Arrangement
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Average Number of Moves for the Royal Game of Err
Bored of tedious court assemblies, King Neduchadneddar the Procrastinator has found a cunning way to keep his advisors, councilo...

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Transition Matrix for the Royal Game of Err
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Convert Decimal to Hexavigesimal
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Convert Hexavigesimal to Decimal
NASA (Ned’s Alien-Spying Agency) have made contact with a 13-fingered race from the planet Genai. Naturally, Ned’s shadowy opera...

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Leaderboard for the Nedball World Cup
At the upcoming inaugural Nedball World Cup, organizers need to track who is in the lead for the coveted Golden Toeplitz trophy,...

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Government of the Neds, by the Neds, for the Neds - Distribute the Nedsburg City Councilors
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Fun with a compass
Each night for the past week, you have been having the same nightmare: You find yourself back in your junior high school geometr...

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Radiation Heat Transfer — View Factors (5)
View factors (aka configuration factors) are utilized in some radiation heat transfer models to estimate heat transfer rates bet...

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Pancakes for everyone!
Accordingly to the <http://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/42460-the-cake-is-a-lie problem 42460>. All the children...

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Find the Area of a Polygon
Consider 2-D geometry and assume that the points are given in form of rows of a matrix. Find the area of polygon enclosed by the...

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Is It a Snake?
Given an m-by-n matrix, return true if the elements of the matrix are a connected "snake" shape from 1 to m*n. Otherwise return ...

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Regular polygon bounded by and bounding a circle
As the number of sides (or vertices) of a regular polygon goes to infinity, its perimeter and area go to the perimeter and area ...

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Euclidean distance from a point to a polynomial
A not uncommon problem in the area of computational geometry is to find the closest point to a straight line from a given point,...

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Under the sea: Snell's law & total internal reflection
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell's_law> When a light travels from one medium to another medium, depending on the refracti...

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Angle bisectors
Given 2 direction vectors, calculate the *_two_ (2) normalized angle bisectors* (which are perpendicular between them). Input...

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solid of revolution
Given an real polynomial P and two real numbers a,b with 0<=a<=b. Calculate the volume of the solid of revolution made by rotati...

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Construct a "diagAdiag" matrix
Construct a matrix whose elements begin from 1 and end at n^2 with the order of arrangement as shown below: For: n = 4 ...

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Addition Partition
You will be given two numbers, N and K. Write a MATLAB function that will determine how many different unique ways you can have...

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Penny Distribution Machine
A machine consists of a row of boxes. To start, one places N pennies in the leftmost box. The machine then redistributes the pen...

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Moving Product (Easy)
Given an input array A, write a function *movprod(A,k,dim)* to calculate the moving product over a sliding window of length *k* ...

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Fill the matrix - 1
Input is a column vector and n. n columns will be added to the left of the input column. The first value of the row is the s...

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Fill a rectangle with 1x1 and 2x2 tiles
A 3x2 rectangle can be filled with 1x1 and 2x2 tiles in three ways: The colors merely distinguish the sizes of the tiles. A 3...

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Find the distance between runs
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Red and green towers
Frankie has a large number of wooden cubes, painted in red and green. He is building little towers with his cubes, by stacking t...

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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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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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Split array into pieces according to corresponding array
An array x of length n has values 1...m with each value appearing at least once. The values are sorted (n>=m). A second...

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Find indices of diagonal elements
Given a matrix A and a diagonal index d (where 0 indicates the main diagonal and off-diagonals are identified by positive and n...

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