Problem 1051. Exact binary matrix factorization

Created by Paul Peeling

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 24 Nov 2012

you should probably add an assert statement that checks the size of the output matrices

Khaled Hamed on 24 Nov 2012

I second @bmtran. lu wins!

Paul Peeling on 24 Nov 2012

thanks, I added the extra asserts as you suggest. the other solutions submitted so far look interesting, thanks for them!

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Solution 167731

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Khaled Hamed on 25 Nov 2012

it's lu, again...

Solution 167480

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Paul Peeling on 24 Nov 2012

very interesting observation that lu returns binary values factors for
these inputs. i must think about this further!

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