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Spot the outlier
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Make a run-length companion vector
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How many trades represent all the profit?
Given a list of results from trades made: [1 3 -4 2 -1 2 3] We can add them up to see this series of trades made a profit ...

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Flag largest magnitude swings as they occur
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Given a window, how many subsets of a vector sum positive
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Find a Pythagorean triple
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Triangle sequence
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Side of an equilateral triangle
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Dimensions of a rectangle
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Is this triangle right-angled?
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Area of an equilateral triangle
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Area of an Isoceles Triangle
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Get the length of a given vector
Given a vector x, the output y should equal the length of x.

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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
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Indexed Probability Table
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Extract leading non-zero digit
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Sums with Excluded Digits
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Find the two most distant points
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surface of a spherical planet
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Summing Digits within Text
Given a string with text and digits, add all the numbers together. Examples: Input str = '4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a...

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Right and wrong
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Length of a short side
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