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Mandelbrot Number Test [Real+Imaginary]
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set Mandelbrot Set> is built around a simple iterative equation. z(1) = c z...

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Find files with extension ext in the current directory
List all files with extension 'ext' in the current directory. Return a char matrix with the name of files in rows. Return 0 if...

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Return the largest number that is adjacent to a zero
This example comes from Steve Eddins' blog: <http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2009/05/27/learning-lessons-from-a-one-liner/ Lear...

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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
Given an input cell array of strings s, pick out the second column and turn it into a row vector of data. Missing data will be i...

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Convert a vector into a number
This is a sub problem related to this problem: <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/621-cryptomath-addition>...

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First N Perfect Squares
*Description* Return the first N perfect squares *Example* input = 4; output = [ 1 4 9 16 ];

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Increment a number, given its digits
Take as input an array of digits (e.g. x = [1 2 3]) and output an array of digits that is that number "incremented" properly, (i...

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Create a matrix X, where each column is a shifted copy of the vector v
Example : in->v = (1:5)'; 1 2 3 4 5 out-> [1 5 4 3 2;2 1 5 4 3;3 2 1 5 4;4 3 2 1 5;5 4 3 ...

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Return the first and last character of a string
Return the first and last character of a string, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the string, the functi...

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Duplicates
Write a function that accepts a cell array of strings and returns another cell array of strings *with only the duplicates* retai...

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Without french accent please !
Suppress french accent For example 'Déjà présent' -> 'Deja present'

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Extract leading non-zero digit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Benford's Law> states that the distribution of leading digits is not random. This...

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Elapsed Time
Given two date strings d1 and d2 of the form yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM:SS (assume hours HH is in 24 hour mode), determine how much time, ...

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How many monitors are connected ?
How to obtain the numbers of monitors connected to your computer ?

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Find the two most distant points
Given a collection of points, return the indices of the rows that contain the two points most distant from one another. The inpu...

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Sorting
Assume that x is an n-by-2 matrix. The aim is to return the first column of x, but sorted according to the second column. Exa...

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All your base are belong to us
Find the base _b_ logarithm of the input decimal number _x_. Express the output as a decimal number. The first argument is the n...

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give nth decimal place of pi
max 15th place after the decimal point is ok for now

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Remove the air bubbles
Given a matrix a, return a matrix b in which all the zeros have "bubbled" to the top. That is, any zeros in a given column shoul...

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Project Euler: Problem 10, Sum of Primes
The sum of the primes below 10 is 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17. Find the sum of all the primes below the input, N. Thank you <http:/...

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Lose control
Remove all characters that are below space in ASCII value.

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Sum all integers from 1 to 2^n
Given the number x, y must be the summation of all integers from 1 to 2^x. For instance if x=2 then y must be 1+2+3+4=10.

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Assign numerical values to a structure with 1 field
The aim is to assign values to a multidimensional structure *without using for-loop or while-loop* Example with a structure ...

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Find the list of all open files
In the test suite, I use <http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fopen.html fopen> to create new files. The task is to find th...

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Flag largest magnitude swings as they occur
You have a phenomenon that produces strictly positive or negative results. delta = [1 -3 4 2 -1 6 -2 -7]; Marching thr...

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Calculate the Hamming distance between two strings
Inspired by a similar Cody problem found <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/93-calculate-the-levenshtein-dist...

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So many choices
For inputs _n_ and _k_ (in that order), output the number of ways that k objects can be chosen from amongst n distinct objects. ...

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Distance walked 3D
suppose you go from x-y-z coordinates [3,4,2] to [0,0,2] to [0,1,2] to [1,1,2], to [1,1,20] then you walked 25 units of distance...

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Counting Sequence
Given a vector x, find the "counting sequence" y. A counting sequence is formed by "counting" the entries in a given sequence...

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The Goldbach Conjecture
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach's_conjecture Goldbach conjecture> asserts that every even integer greater than 2 can ...

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