Problem 262. Swap the input arguments

Created by Steve Eddins

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Mattias on 4 Jan 2015

Your initial code suggestion is weird :)

源樹上林 on 13 Aug 2020

good!

Maryam HCTRAK Yousef on 14 Aug 2020

Why it is wrong?

Daniel MC on 22 Aug 2020

too easy =)

Sili Zeng on 26 Feb 2021

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Cory Cunningham on 11 Dec 2020

Do I get points for commenting?

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Tatjana Dulinskiene on 5 Oct 2020

easy

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Tatjana Dulinskiene on 2 Oct 2020

good

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Sankirna D. Joge on 13 Aug 2020

function [q,r] = swapInputs(a,b)
[q1,r1] = cart2pol(a,b);
q1=(pi/2)-q1;
[q,r]=pol2cart(q1,r1);
end

if u run above code in matlab it successfully swaps any input argument. why it is not accepting solution ?

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Piero Cimule on 19 Jun 2020

[r, q] = deal(a,b)

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Shlomo Geva on 23 Oct 2017

This is a correct solution - alas using a function handle, not an m-file

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pranju chakrapani on 10 May 2016

You are brilliant when you are lazy

Gustav Lindstrand on 30 Dec 2016

Omg love this solution so simple and easy really clever! Didn't think about this :)

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fkk on 25 Jul 2017

I feel so pride that I just get the same code like this leading one!!!

jo gayong on 5 Jul 2019

I had no idea it'd be this simple.

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